Holger Parplies wrote at about 18:43:59 +0200 on Wednesday, October 21, 2009:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Andrew Schulman wrote on 2009-10-21 05:49:59 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
 > Cant find how to set what is backed up!]:
 
 > > This happens to me all the time.  If you edit a file as root, some editors
 > > will preserve the file ownership when you save, others (emacs) will change
 > > it back to root.
 > 

I am pretty sure that emacs (by default at least - I'm sure you could
always configure it otherwise) preserves ownership when "editing" if
by this you mean editing & saving back to the same file. Now it is
true that backups of said edited file may be owned by root or by the
original owner -- however, that is a *feature* that is
configurable. That behavior is determined by the emacs variable
backup-by-copying (along with 3 other variables that allow more
granularity over such behavior).

 > You run emacs as root? Small tip: "sudoedit". You can use any editor you 
 > want,
 > and it will be run with your priviledges on a tmp file. "sudoedit" should
 > preserve ownership, if I'm not completely mistaken.
 > 

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