help with cvs server

[Skunk Worx]

Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Friday 17 December 2004 22:14, Skunk Worx wrote:
>  
> 
>>3) In the link above, the paragraph "(On some systems, you also
>>need to set the set-group-ID-on-execution bit on the repository
>>directories (see chmod(1)) so that newly-created files and
>>directories get the group-ID of the parent directory rather than
>>that of the current process.)" Does this apply on fedora?
>>
> 
> It works here on FC3:
> 
> # mkdir /tmp/cvstest
> 
> # ll -d /tmp/cvstest
>    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 18 11:56 /tmp/cvstest
> 
> # chgrp apache /tmp/cvstest
> 
> # ll -d /tmp/cvstest
>    drwxr-xr-x  2 root apache 4096 Dec 18 11:56 /tmp/cvstest
> 
> # chmod g+s /tmp/cvstest
> 
> # touch /tmp/cvstest/file1
> 
> # ll /tmp/cvstest/
>    -rw-r--r--  1 root apache 0 Dec 18 11:58 file1
> 

nice simple test you have provided. so i guess the answer is yes, linux 
and in my case fedora needs the set-group-ID-on-execution bit set.

thanks,
John