Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:12:17 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dave Boers <djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl Subject: Re: Small bug in chown and chgrp ? Message-ID: <20000306121217.Z14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000306203608.B26973@relativity.student.utwente.nl>; from djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:36:08PM %2B0100 References: <20000306203608.B26973@relativity.student.utwente.nl>
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* Dave Boers <djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl> [000306 12:08] wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been bitten by the following: > > 44 relativity ~ % chown -v djb:wheel test > chown: illegal option -- v > usage: chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] owner[:group] file ... > chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] :group file ... > chgrp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] group file ... > > Where "test" is an ordinary directory. > > It seems that chown's behavior is inconsistent with both the usage message > and the man page. The same goes for chgrp. have you deleted your stale copies of chown/chgrp? hint look in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin and make sure the old ones aren't "in the way". -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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