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
