Writing to file resets owjner/group/mode

[Robert Dahlem]

Marc,

>I have a file called /etc/exim/config that is required to be owned by
>mail.mail, mode 664. My user account is called mh and I am member of
>the group mail. I'd like to edit that file via samba with an editor
>that is running on my desktop Windows box.
>
>Whenever I write to the file, it gets reset to mh.mh 744 which breaks
>the mail system reading its configuration from that file. I suspect
>this happens because the editor might be renaming the old file,
>writing a new one and then deleting the old file.

Yes.

>Can this behaviour be controlled by configuring samba?

No.

Besides of using another editor you could do something like

[exim]
   path = /etc/exim
   force user = mail
   force group = mail
   force create mode = 0664

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

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