go to the directory *ABOVE* the one you want to change. Lets say the directory is /home/jones.
cd /home then do chown -R jones jones/ or if needing to change the OWNER and Group chown -R jones:newgroup jones/ Tom Condon wrote:
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 ;-})
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