Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:25:59 -0400 From: Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problem changing ownership of a link Message-ID: <20000824082558.B1337@csh.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <39A51372.66EC90DE@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:22:10AM -0500 References: <39A51372.66EC90DE@math.missouri.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:22:10AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > 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. % chown -h user symlink This should have been asked on -questions. -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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