On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:01, Randall R Schulz wrote: > 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 And I have used the period for so long, on Suse systems since 5.0 and Redhat before that, that I by habit always just type a '.' I didn't remember until re-reading the man page that the colon was the defined separator.
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