17 May
2001
17 May
'01
7:17 a.m.
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote:
chown -R us.us /yourbase/*
The contents of the directory may belong to 'us' but the directory is still mine! Mine I tell you! Hahahaha! (:-) 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 {} \; The '-R' flag is a Berkleyism which was contentious when it was introduced. See http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog