'touch' from setgid-perlscript

[Maarten Boekhold <boekhold@cindy.et.tudelft.nl>]

Hi,

little out of place here, though it's for a script used in a debian-package:

I have a perl-script which does a `/usr/bin/touch FILE` where file is to 
be in a directory which is setgid news and is group-writable. The script 
itself is setgid news too.

However, this script fails. The /usr/bin/touch runs from within a section 
that is executed in a fork()-child. Actually all other commands I execute 
(with backticks) there fail writing to that dir.  I tried setting 
$GID=$EGID in several places to see if this makes a difference, but not.

Any wizard out here that knows what to do?

Maarten

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