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Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system

From: Nikolaj Schumacher
Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:23:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) 
iainb.forms@googlemail.com wrote:

> I'm running Emacs on OSX 10.4 in Terminal. Every time I create a new
> file using C-x C-f the owner is "system" and not my user, so the files
> become read-only! I'm not running with sudo or su, so I'm not quite
> sure why this is happening.

I'm on 10.5, and it doesn't have a user "system".  Does the account have
the same user ID as "root"?


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
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