On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 15:20 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > forgive me for I have trespassed, but I have also read and read > I changed ownership on a bunch of folders in the /var/lock directory by > mistake -- from what I've read, there is no undo - > I would like to put these back the way they were. I'm not sure if they > were all root:root > I have an exactly configured box I can ssh into and get the list of > owners, but I can't find the command that lists ownership of a folder - > is there such? ls and chown and chmod work on both folders and files. In fact, in Unix systems, there is little difference. A folder (aka directory) is just a file that lists the files in it with pointers to them. It has a special format and they are recognized by the system and handled specially, but in many respects they are simply index files. -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
