From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 24 5:22:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F51537B424 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000824122210.FPWV15750.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:22:10 -0700 Message-ID: <39A51372.66EC90DE@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:22:10 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Problem changing ownership of a link Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If xxx is a soft link, I am finding that the chown command has no effect in changing ownership of xxx: if xxx is owned by bob, then chown fred xxx seems to have no effect at all. Is this how it should be? I'm finding this a bit frustrating. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message