Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

["Hhayes" <hhayes@eeiholding.com>]

I didn't realize that Excel did that, but you are right.  I just noticed
that it is only effecting Excel files.  It just so happend that the
directories that I was looking at contained only Excel files, but after
checking, all other file types seem to be working fine.

Thanks.

"Stefano Salvi" <stefano.salvi9@virgilio.it> wrote in message
news:1qDdm-4KL-1@gated-at.bofh.it...
> At 09.11 18/02/2004 -0600, Hhayes wrote:
> >After saving the file, if I run a ls -l on
> >the directory the file permissions on the file I opened are set to
"hhayes"
> >as the owner with rw permission, and the group is set to "users" with
only r
> >permission.  I am not deleting the file and recreating it, only opening
and
> >then saving it.  This happens no matter what user opens and saves a file.
> >I know that it isn't supposed to work this way, because my other Debian
box
> >works correctly.
> Are you shure?
> As far as I know, when you save a file in Excel, the file is not
> overwritten, but is copied to a temporary file, then the old file renamed
> and the new file is renamed.
>          Stefano Salvi
>
>
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