Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:49:05 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Rachel Florentine <rachel_florentine@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Translate This Command? Message-ID: <200611201449.05834.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20061120115035.91895.qmail@web57815.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <20061120115035.91895.qmail@web57815.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Monday 20 November 2006 13:50, Rachel Florentine wrote:
> Hi;
> I'm reading a how-to and it tells me to issue this command:
>
> chown -R alias.qmail ~alias/rejoice
>
> But that errors. What's the BSD translation?
I suspect you mean this(from chown manual)
COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to
distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (``:'')
character so that user and group names may contain the dot character.
Nikos
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