On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Balu manyam wrote: > 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
> 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 <from man page> -H if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it -P do not traverse any symbolic links (default) </from man page> For the specific use case, the CLI above is fine as is, have not yet encountered symlinks in /home for user dirs. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
