Re: chown fails to ignore symbolic links during recursive directory transversals
Mark Brand wrote: Moreover, there doesn't seem to be any way of invoking chown so that it operates recursively on a directory tree but ignores (doesn't follow) symbolic links. Personally I would use find/xargs. Like this: haydn:~ # mkdir sandbox haydn:~ # cd sandbox/ haydn:~/sandbox # mkdir -p a/aa/aaa haydn:~/sandbox # touch foo haydn:~/sandbox # mkdir b haydn:~/sandbox # cd a/aa/aaa/ haydn:~/sandbox/a/aa/aaa # ln -s ../../../foo foo haydn:~/sandbox/a/aa/aaa # ln -s ../../../b b haydn:~/sandbox/a/aa/aaa # cd ../../.. haydn:~/sandbox # ls -l total 2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 120 Mar 9 10:03 . drwx-- 37 root root 2304 Mar 9 10:02 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Mar 9 10:03 a drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Mar 9 10:03 b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Mar 9 10:03 foo haydn:~/sandbox # chown -R nobody:users a find a -print0 | xargs -r0 chown nobody:users Does that work as you desire? Bob ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: chown fails to ignore symbolic links during recursive directory transversals
Mark Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This is a correction of my last e-mail that incorrectly referred to chmod instead of chown in a couple of places. This report is about chown. Sorry about that.] I hope I'm not making a fool of myself, but here we go: version: coreutils-5.2.1-3.rpm (from SuSE 9.2). Linux kernel 2.6.11.1. reiserfs. Thanks for the report. However, I cannot reproduce that behavior with unmodified coreutils-5.2.1 built and run on a Debian/GNU unstable system with Linux kernel 2.6.11. Here's a small example: $ mkdir a b $ ln -s ../b a/sub $ sudo /bin/chown -R --verbose root a changed ownership of `a' to root changed ownership of `a/sub' to root $ ls -od a b drwxr-xr-x 2 root 60 Mar 9 19:36 a drwxr-xr-x 2 meyering 40 Mar 9 19:36 b Maybe SuSE's version has changes that make it work differently? Or (more likely) SuSE configured/built using a kernel/libc with different chown/lchown semantics than what you're currently using. That is one of the risks of using pre-compiled packages (with configure-time run-tests) on newer versions of an OS. Recompile it on your current system, and it may well work as documented. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: chown fails to ignore symbolic links during recursive directory transversals
I can't reproduce that bug with coreutils 5.3.0 on my Debian stable box, so I'd guess the problem has been fixed. Can you please try it again with coreutils 5.3.0? ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz Here's my attempt to reproduce the problem: penguin:/tmp# mkdir sandbox penguin:/tmp# cd sandbox/ penguin:/tmp/sandbox# mkdir -p a/aa/aaa penguin:/tmp/sandbox# touch foo penguin:/tmp/sandbox# mkdir b penguin:/tmp/sandbox# cd a/aa/aaa/ penguin:/tmp/sandbox/a/aa/aaa# ln -s ../../../foo foo penguin:/tmp/sandbox/a/aa/aaa# ln -s ../../../b b penguin:/tmp/sandbox/a/aa/aaa# cd ../../.. penguin:/tmp/sandbox# ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 9 14:42 a drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 14:42 b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Mar 9 14:42 foo penguin:/tmp/sandbox# chown -R nobody:users a penguin:/tmp/sandbox# ls -al total 948 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root4096 Mar 9 14:42 . drwxrwxrwt 42 root root 954368 Mar 9 14:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody users 4096 Mar 9 14:42 a drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 Mar 9 14:42 b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 9 14:42 foo penguin:/tmp/sandbox# 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. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
