On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:41, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 7:44:05 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders Johansson wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > > > chown -R <username>.users /home/<username> > > > > > > No, it should be: > > > > > > chown -R <username>:users /home/<username> > > > > Both the colon and period separators work. > > I went back and tried it here......nada. Only the full colon.
Time to upgrade, then. It works both ways at least as of 10.0. % chown --version chown (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering. Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > Fred RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
