Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:12:42 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group Message-ID: <19990727081242.C46030@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <4792.933075813@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:43:33PM %2B0200 References: <19990727065749.B32516@mad> <4792.933075813@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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> COMPATIBILITY > Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') > character to distinguish the group name. Begining with FreeBSD > 4.0, this has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that > user and group names may contain the dot character. Hum... I think I should change this text slightly. I should not refer to chown(8) so strongly. It's on my list now. :-) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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