On Tuesday 29 March 2005 14:20, Graham Campbell wrote: > 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> ls -l will show files, directories (folders) and ownership
