Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] CVS Build Problems

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:03:35 -0600 (EST)
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:

> Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 1. The group of the new directory on cvs.ethereal.com needs to change
> > to 'cvs'. CVS doesn't do this automatically, and it would be awkward
> > for our default group on cvs.ethereal.com to be cvs, causing any file
> > that we create on that computer be owned by group 'cvs'.
> 
> We solved this problem by using the SGID bit in CVS repository 
> directories.

The ethereal, ethereal-doc, and ethereal-web directories (and their
subdirectories) are now sgid, with the group set to 'cvs'.