From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 5:26:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D851C37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5802443EE8 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18PNAg-0001hK-00; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:26:34 +0000 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:26:34 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Andrew Cutler Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220132634.GA6498@submonkey.net> References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: > Hello > > > > I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file > permissions incorrectly: > > $ su > $ cd /data > $ chown -R andrew:wheel * > $ chown -R andrew:wheel .* That matches "..". Ceri -- My ancestors help the bold sons! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message