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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:18:31 +0000
From:      Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com>
To:        deepcore <bo@visfeldt.dk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.
Message-ID:  <47B1D4E7.6000001@barafranca.com>
In-Reply-To: <15435319.post@talk.nabble.com>
References:  <15427115.post@talk.nabble.com>	<20080212091325.Q2271@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <15435319.post@talk.nabble.com>

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deepcore wrote:
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>
>   
>> <chown is in /usr/sbin/>
>>
>>     
>
> ok. I get that, and i found it
> I can, however not execute it.
> whenever i go to the usr/sbin and type "chown" i get
> chown: Command not found.
>
> i find this pretty strange as ls -l shows:
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6688 Jan 12 2007 chown
>
> shouldn't this mean that the file is excecutable by all?
> even tried to switch to root first (just executing su)
>
> ...
> What i am more specifically trying to do is change the ownership of all the
> directories and files on a specific disk, mounted as /mnt/moviedisk, to the
> user that is supposed to own them.
>
> Any surgestions? What am i doing wrong as i cannot execute the chown
> command?
>
>
>   

/usr/sbin/chown
cd /usr/sbin; ./chown

Hugo



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