On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:06 -0600, kevin kempter wrote:
On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Please don't hijack existing threads to talk about unrelated topics. This question should be a new thread.
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:14 -0600, kevin kempter wrote:
Hi List;
I have 2 users which both have need to access various database related files.I've created a new group called 'dba'. Most of the time I want the users to create files with their default user:group perms, however when I'm working on these sql / db files I want the files to be created with the default user as the owner but dba as the group.
The standard way of doing this is for the DB software to run setgid as the dba group. Since you don't say what the DB software is, it's hard to say if that's appropriate in your case.
poc
Thanks for the info.
FYI - I did not hijack a thread - I started this thread.
No, you did hijack the thread. Simply changing the Subject line is not enough to start a new thread. Threading is determined by the In-Reply-To mail header, so any reply to a list message is regarded as part of the same thread, even if the Subject is completely different.
Take a look at the list archive at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-March/thread.html and search for your original message. You'll see it's nested within the conversation about "Fedora 8 won't remember bluetooth mouse, hidd not running by default", meaning you created it by replying to one of those messages instead of by creating a new one. That's what hijacking means, and people object to it precisely because it screws up the layout of conversations (threads) in many mail clients.
poc