From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 5:58:50 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 76CFC37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:58:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from fry.serversaint.com (fry.serversaint.com [162.42.131.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E6243EE8 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@1stelement.com) Received: from cpe-144-132-174-149.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.174.149] helo=[192.168.0.106]) by fry.serversaint.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18PNg4-0002px-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:59:01 +0000 Subject: Re: chown broken?? From: Andrew Cutler To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20021220132902.GF22383@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> <20021220132902.GF22383@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1040392764.921.76.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 21 Dec 2002 00:59:24 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - fry.serversaint.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - 1stelement.com 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 Thanks for everyone's quick responses. I'm not going to delve any deeper as to why chown, chmod etc match .. for .* when other commands do not. I'm sure this is ground that has been covered many times before. And I'm sure its the sort of mistake that you only make once. (In fact now that I think about it I'm sure there is a discussion of this issue in FreeBSD Unleashed/SAMS) And in starting this thread I feel like I've just committed some sort of UNIX newbie fopar. :) So without further embarrassment, does anyone have any idea on what is the quickest and easiest way to correct the file ownership issues that I'm currently experiencing ? -- Andrew Cutler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message