On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:01, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:41, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 7:44:05 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:31, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:57:09 pm Anders Johansson wrote:
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chown -R <username>.users /home/<username>
No, it should be:
chown -R <username>:users /home/<username>
Both the colon and period separators work.
I went back and tried it here......nada. Only the full colon.
Time to upgrade, then. It works both ways at least as of 10.0.
% chown --version chown (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
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Fred
RRS And I have used the period for so long, on Suse systems since 5.0 and Redhat before that, that I by habit always just type a '.' I didn't remember until re-reading the man page that the colon was the defined separator.
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