Re: Problem with chown

2024-01-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/23/24 08:08, Robert McBroom via users wrote: While installing a virtual machine I get a message that the files cannot be read by uid104,gid104 these correspond to qemu:qemu. Tried to use chown to explicitly assign the directories to qemu:qemu but chown doesn't recognize qemu as valid

Re: Problem with chown

2024-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 11:08 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > While installing a virtual machine I get a message that the files > cannot > be read by uid104,gid104 these correspond to qemu:qemu. Tried to use > chown to explicitly assign the directories to qemu:qemu but chow

Problem with chown

2024-01-23 Thread Robert McBroom via users
While installing a virtual machine I get a message that the files cannot be read by uid104,gid104 these correspond to qemu:qemu. Tried to use chown to explicitly assign the directories to qemu:qemu but chown doesn't recognize qemu as valid or the uid:gid combination. tried setfacl to add qemu

Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread Mickey
On 02/02/2015 10:29 AM, David Liguori wrote: You'd be lucky if it ever paid attention to what you said again. Isn't that the truth, I have two of them, Solid Black. Their attitude is Maybe I will and maybe I won't -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread David Liguori
On 1/30/2015 5:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: chown -R kitty:kitty kitty Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... I had a friend who named his dog, 'Stay'. He kept saying, 'Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay!' The dog almost had a heart attack. Whereas no kitty would fall for that. You'd be lucky

Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/02/2015 10:03 AM, poma wrote: On 02.02.2015 18:49, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/02/2015 07:29 AM, David Liguori wrote: On 1/30/2015 5:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: chown -R kitty:kitty kitty Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... I had a friend who named his dog, 'Stay'. He kept saying, 'Come here

Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread poma
On 02.02.2015 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/02/2015 10:03 AM, poma wrote: On 02.02.2015 18:49, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/02/2015 07:29 AM, David Liguori wrote: On 1/30/2015 5:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: chown -R kitty:kitty kitty Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... I had a friend who named

Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread poma
On 02.02.2015 19:40, poma wrote: On 02.02.2015 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/02/2015 10:03 AM, poma wrote: On 02.02.2015 18:49, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/02/2015 07:29 AM, David Liguori wrote: On 1/30/2015 5:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: chown -R kitty:kitty kitty Here, kitty, kitty

Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/02/2015 07:29 AM, David Liguori wrote: On 1/30/2015 5:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: chown -R kitty:kitty kitty Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... I had a friend who named his dog, 'Stay'. He kept saying, 'Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay!' The dog almost had a heart attack. Whereas no kitty

Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread poma
On 02.02.2015 18:49, Rick Stevens wrote: On 02/02/2015 07:29 AM, David Liguori wrote: On 1/30/2015 5:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: chown -R kitty:kitty kitty Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... I had a friend who named his dog, 'Stay'. He kept saying, 'Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay!' The dog

Re: chown ?

2015-01-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/30/2015 12:45 PM, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20 I have a User Directory named kitty I want to change all the directories. files to the owner kitty . There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty. chown -R kitty kitty:kitty Is this Correct ? The correct command

Re: chown ?

2015-01-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 30Jan2015 13:07, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 01/30/2015 12:45 PM, Mickey wrote: I have a User Directory named kitty I want to change all the directories. files to the owner kitty . There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty. chown -R kitty kitty:kitty

Re: chown ?

2015-01-30 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20 I have a User Directory named kitty I want to change all the directories. files to the owner kitty . There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty. chown -R kitty kitty:kitty Is this Correct ? chown -R user.group

Re: chown ?

2015-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2015 12:45 PM, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20 I have a User Directory named kitty I want to change all the directories. files to the owner kitty . There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty. chown -R kitty kitty:kitty Is this Correct ? Not according to man chown

Re: chown ?

2015-01-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/30/2015 01:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/30/2015 12:45 PM, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20 I have a User Directory named kitty I want to change all the directories. files to the owner kitty . There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty. chown -R kitty kitty:kitty

chown ?

2015-01-30 Thread Mickey
Fedora 20 I have a User Directory named kitty I want to change all the directories. files to the owner kitty . There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty. chown -R kitty kitty:kitty Is this Correct ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: chown ?

2015-01-30 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 15:45 -0500, Mickey wrote: chown -R kitty kitty:kitty Is this Correct ? No. Seeing as others have already said how to do it, I'll just add; look at the man file for commands, there's explanations, and often examples at the end of the manual (there definitely

Re: chown ??

2011-06-30 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 17:23 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I should add that I do not back up the system. Since it can be easily reinstalled from the disks or the net, that would be redundant. What concerns me is backing up Documents, since that is my stuff. Backing up configuration files

Re: chown ??

2011-06-30 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tim wrote: Backing up configuration files can be handy, too You bet. I keep a number of config files in my backup, since I spent a lot of time configuring them and like to restore that configuration in future editions of Fedora. Of course, I always compare to make sure that the new system

Re: chown ??

2011-06-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 29Jun2011 14:25, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: | On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and | files in tom to owner:tom . | | The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not | changing the directories and files to owner, tom

chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread james tate
On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and files in tom to owner:tom . The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not changing the directories and files to owner, tom . Command chown -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership

Re: chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and files in tom to owner:tom . The drive is mounted but from /home the command  chown -R tom tom is not changing the directories and files to owner, tom

Re: chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.06.2011 20:25, schrieb james tate: On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and files in tom to owner:tom . The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not changing the directories and files to owner, tom . Command chown -R

Re: chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread Markku Kolkka
james tate kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 29. kesäkuuta 2011): On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and files in tom to owner:tom . What filesystem is used on the backup drive? If it's FAT or NTFS then you can't use chown or chmod because

Re: chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
james tate wrote: On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and files in tom to owner:tom . The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not changing the directories and files to owner, tom . Command chown -R tom:tom tom won't change

Re: chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: My solution: mount user stuff to /home/you/mountpoint. Eg. I mount my Documents partition and my Backup partition to /home/me/Documents and /home/me/Backup. This way, I am the owner and I don't have to with changing the ownership of /mnt/stuff. I should