Subject: Re: Mails from "cron" caused by "newsyslog"
To: enami tsugutomo <enami@but-b.or.jp>
From: Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/22/2000 14:25:08
enami tsugutomo <enami@but-b.or.jp> wrote:

> Just an thought by UTSL; Need to wait completion of gzip before chown

Yes. In fact, according to gzip(1), the chown() shouldn't be needed:

	gzip preserves the mode, ownership and timestamps of
	files when compressing or decompressing.