On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
>
> > $ cd /home; chown -R usr1: usr1
>
> Oops.  should be
>
>        # cd /home; chown -R usr1: usr1
>
> --
> Arun Khan
>
>
if i recall correctly one needs to be careful with -R flag as if the dir
contains symlinks chown -R may follow the symlink ? --  '-RH ' may prevent
this happenining
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