From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 24 5:26:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mcp.csh.rit.edu (mcp.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA8D37B424 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fury.csh.rit.edu (fury.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.5]) by mcp.csh.rit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9BF348; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:26:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jon@localhost) by fury.csh.rit.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id IAA01669; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:25:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:25:59 -0400 From: Jon Parise To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Problem changing ownership of a link Message-ID: <20000824082558.B1337@csh.rit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , FreeBSD Stable List References: <39A51372.66EC90DE@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39A51372.66EC90DE@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:22:10AM -0500 X-Operating-System: SunOS 5.7 (sun4u) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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