On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:26:27AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > 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? > I think you will find that the UID and GID are -2 base 2**31 , which is a form of nobody. -- ======================================================================= "All Bibles are man-made." -- Thomas Edison ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
