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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:42:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
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Subject: Re: Why is "chown -h -R" forbidden?
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote:

> When trying to run
> 
> chown -h -R user.group file ...
> 
> I get the message
> 
> chown: the -R and -h options may not be specified together
> 
> Why is this so? I want to pass a whole file hierarchy over
> to a user; including the symlinks (not what they point at).

-R and -h are mutually exclusive.  See chown(8); try the -H option.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major