From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 8:12:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619A61537E for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:12:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-1-88.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.88]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01516; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA65089; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:12:42 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group Message-ID: <19990727081242.C46030@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990727065749.B32516@mad> <4792.933075813@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <4792.933075813@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:43:33PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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