Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:14732 comp.unix.wizards:17158 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: at files and permissions Message-ID: <1882@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 7 Jul 89 06:36:00 GMT References: <1894@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <669@lzaz.ATT.COM> <8072@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1989Jul6.204710.5550@eci386.uucp> Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Distribution: na Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 10 > 2) BSD *does* allow you to give files away. No, it doesn't - not vanilla 4.xBSD, anyway; you have to be root to change the ownership of a file. It may allow you to make some limited changes to the *group* IDs of files you own, but that's a different matter. >In SVR3, there's no specific utility to run the "at" jobs, they seem to >be simply shovelled into cron. Yup, "cron" runs 'em both, and has since S5R2.