On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:59 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I am trying to change the ownership on some files in a Qmail > installation, on a FC3 server. > > I am logged in as root, and when I issue the chown root:root -R bin > command, I get an error that says that changing ownership is not > permitted What is the filesystem? Some legacy filesystems do not support changing ownership. If it is ext2 or ext3, this won't be the issue. Also, I think you need the "-R" before the "root:root". > > > As far as I know (how do I check for sure?) Selinux is turned off getenforce, which returns enforcing, permissive or disabled. Off = disabled. > > Heres the output of the directory listing > > [root@srvweb-02 vpopmail]# cd bin > [root@srvweb-02 bin]# ls -al > total 1332 > drwxrwxrwx 2 4294967294 4294967294 4096 Oct 11 08:48 . > drwx------ 8 4294967294 4294967294 4096 Oct 11 08:48 .. > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 49548 Oct 11 08:48 clearopensmtp > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 53692 Oct 11 08:48 dotqmail2valias > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vaddaliasdomain > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 52716 Oct 11 08:48 vadddomain <snip> Those UID and GIDs look way too big. How was Qmail installed? If you create a new file in the same directory, does it have root as the owner, and can you change the owner/group? Cheers, Ben
