G&RV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I run into the same kind of bug today trying to change the ownership > of a directory by running "chmod" on a symlink refering to it. > The problem is a bit different from the one reported by MÃller, Folkhard > but still very close. > > If the referenced file ALREADY BELONGS to USER:GROUP > and if the symlink itself belongs to a different user or group, then > the command > > chown USER:GROUP sym -c > > will not change the user/group ownership of neither the symlink `sym` > or the referenced file (which is the expected behaviour) but will > output the diagnostic: > > changed ownership of `sym' to USER:GROUP > ... > chown (coreutils) 5.2.1 > ext3 filesystem > Fedora Core 3 system > kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3
I don't observe this problem with coreutils 5.3.0: # ls -l a b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 10 00:18 a lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 1 Apr 10 00:18 b -> a # chown root:root b -c # ls -l a b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 10 00:18 a lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 1 Apr 10 00:18 b -> a _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
