:: The contents of the directory may belong to 'us' but the directory is :: still mine! Mine I tell you! Hahahaha! (:-) Hrrmm... need to Bugtraq my sig obviously. :: It's OK for you young things, you have it too easy - us 7th Edition :: weenies needed to: :: :: find /yourbase -exec chown us {} \; :: find /yourbase -exec chgrp us {} \; :: :: 9th Edition improved this to: :: :: find /yourbase -exec chown us,us {} \; That comma-nd doesn't work. Try this patch: --- yourbase Fri May 18 12:26:32 2001 +++ yourbase.fixed Fri May 18 12:28:23 2001 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -find /yourbase -exec chown us,us {} \; +find /yourbase -exec chown us:us {} \; :: The '-R' flag is a Berkleyism which was contentious when it was :: introduced. See http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html Interesting! I can now clobber some eejits on the FreeBSD list over the head with that info. :-) -- Juha --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog