From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 6:11:47 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 3121537B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:11:45 -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 5B11C43EDE for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:11:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18PNsN-0001oL-00; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:11:43 +0000 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:11:43 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Andrew Cutler Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220141143.GA6893@submonkey.net> References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> <20021220132902.GF22383@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1040392764.921.76.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1040392764.921.76.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 12:59:24AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: > 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 ? mtree -U [insert other options here] Ceri -- May the ire of my ancestors bring your last day! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message