Yup. Shot myself in the foot again.
Some versions of *nix *do* and some versions *don't* allow
access to '..' when you specify '.*' in a regular expression
(say, chown).
I'm running RedHat on a laptop (and may need to re-install
now), but I'd like to avoid this in the future.
Is there a way to set something so this *won't* happen? If I
want to change ownership of all of a user's files (because I
copied one user to another) but don't want it going ../../..
on me (and thereby changing the entire filesystem). Is there
a way to do that? Probably in root's setup files?
First clue: chown takes a while
Second clue: error message:
chown: changing ownership of '../proc/526' : Operation not
permitted
Thanks for any suggestions you can give me (besides never log
on as root).
In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,
Tom ;-})
Tom. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed
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