Inheriting group ownership under Red Hat Linux?

[Pete Nesbitt]

On June 24, 2004 10:56 am, Rigler, Steve wrote:
>  For some reason, setting "2775" doesn't work under all OS's while
> settings "g+s" does.  Linux doesn't seem to have this problem, but
> I've seen it on Solaris and Irix.
>
> -Steve
>

Ya, I have run into that in Solaris. IIRC, the 2nnn only works on files in the 
directories top level, subdirectories do not inherit the flag so the files in 
subdirectories are user's group.
I never could figure out why it would work with g+s and not 2nnn.  Solaris can 
seem strange sometimes:-0

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Pete Nesbitt, rhce