cp -p

[Chuck Swiger]

On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> here's the situation:
>
> HostServer exports via NFS /www, which belongs to user:www
> (uid=1001, gid=80). The directory has the segid flag set:
>
> drwsr-xr-x  13 user www 512 Feb 7 00:58 www

Umm, that directory you show has the setuid bit set, not setgid!
If you do a "chmod g+s www" you'll get "drwxr-sr-x" permissions.

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-Chuck