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Ok, but how do I make sure foo-2's owner is the same as foo-1?
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Re^5: Writing to a file atomically without renaming
by salva (Canon) on Jun 30, 2005 at 19:56 UTC
    oh, I see your problem now...

    I think you can't do it without becoming root in some way... like for example, using sudo.