RE: Problems changing permissions

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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



[Timothy A. Holmes] 

Hi Ben -- the file system is whatever default installs with Fedora Core
3 -- as I recall its EXT3, but I could be wrong on that

SELINUX is disabled

Trying to create a new file 

Touch test

Gives me a file with the same owner/group and it cannot be changed
either


Qmail was installed using the procedure outlined at www.qmailrocks.org.
This question originated after I tried to run a script to fix the
permissions on the installation -- not sure how it originated, but its
apparently a known bug, the script failed with the same errors, so I
opened up the script and tired the processes manually -- and im hitting
the same errors


TIM



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