Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The distibution has been made with the chmod, but without the chown command in its /bin directory. chown is in /usr/sbin/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:49:22AM -0800, deepcore wrote: chown is in /usr/sbin/ ok. I get that, and i found it I can, however not execute it. whenever i go to the usr/sbin and type chown i get chown: Command not found. That is most likely because it is not in your path. It you had

Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-12 Thread Hugo Silva
deepcore wrote: chown is in /usr/sbin/ ok. I get that, and i found it I can, however not execute it. whenever i go to the usr/sbin and type chown i get chown: Command not found. i find this pretty strange as ls -l shows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6688 Jan 12 2007 chown shouldn't

Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:49 AM 2/12/2008, deepcore wrote: chown is in /usr/sbin/ ok. I get that, and i found it I can, however not execute it. whenever i go to the usr/sbin and type chown i get chown: Command not found. i find this pretty strange as ls -l shows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6688 Jan 12 2007

Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-12 Thread deepcore
chown is in /usr/sbin/ ok. I get that, and i found it I can, however not execute it. whenever i go to the usr/sbin and type chown i get chown: Command not found. i find this pretty strange as ls -l shows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6688 Jan 12 2007 chown shouldn't this mean that the file

Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-11 Thread deepcore
. When i installed it ages ago i did, however not have the insight to see which users should own which directories, and i need to change that now. The distibution has been made with the chmod, but without the chown command in its /bin directory. Does anyone know where to get this nifty util

Re: The chown command

2004-03-23 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Gerald S. Stoller wrote: This gives the system owner the flexibility to leave it this way, or to restrict this ability to root as it is now by seting chown's permissions to 500 , it is already owned by root. The chown command merely uses the chown system call

The chown command

2004-03-22 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
In freeBSD 4.3 4.7 ( others), the chown command only works for root , for other users the command responds (if one actually tries to change the ownership) chown: file name: Operation not permitted where file name is the first file name in the argument-list. This command does work