Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:26 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
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".
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bash on redhat/fedora systems is pretty forgiving with this. You can
locate the -R modifier pretty much anywhere...not so on other shells and
other systems.
When did chown become a shell built-in?
$ which chown
/bin/chown
$
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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
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that looks suspiciously like a foreign filesystem (nfs) or a foreign
owner (perhaps like Windows/NIS owner) - either way, this presents an
issue that isn't working like you think it should be.
I'd like to see the output of mount. This looks pretty weird to
me. It certainly doesn't look like a "native" *NIX type system.
I agree with you.
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