Problems changing permissions

[Timothy A. Holmes]

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

Here's a snip of the output

[root at srvweb-02 vpopmail]# chown root:root -R bin
chown: changing ownership of `bin': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vkill': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vmoddomlimits': Operation not
permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vdeloldusers': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vdeluser': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vsetuserquota': Operation not
permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vaddaliasdomain': Operation not
permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vadddomain': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vpopbull': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vadduser': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vuserinfo': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vdeldomain': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/valias': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vdelivermail': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vmkpasswd': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/dotqmail2valias': Operation not
permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vdominfo': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vmoduser': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vpasswd': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vipmap': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vchkpw': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vconvert': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/clearopensmtp': Operation not
permitted
chown: changing ownership of `bin/vchangepw': Operation not permitted
[root at srvweb-02 vpopmail]#


As far as I know (how do I check for sure?) Selinux is turned off

Heres the output of the directory listing

 [root at srvweb-02 vpopmail]# cd bin
[root at 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
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vadduser
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 53116 Oct 11 08:48 valias
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 50604 Oct 11 08:48 vchangepw
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 60588 Oct 11 08:48 vchkpw
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52684 Oct 11 08:48 vconvert
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 49964 Oct 11 08:48 vdeldomain
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 60540 Oct 11 08:48 vdelivermail
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vdeloldusers
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 50124 Oct 11 08:48 vdeluser
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vdominfo
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vipmap
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 49900 Oct 11 08:48 vkill
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 49676 Oct 11 08:48 vmkpasswd
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 60428 Oct 11 08:48 vmoddomlimits
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52812 Oct 11 08:48 vmoduser
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vpasswd
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 56364 Oct 11 08:48 vpopbull
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vsetuserquota
-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 54060 Oct 11 08:48 vuserinfo
[root at srvweb-02 bin]#

The files right now are chmod 777 as part of a test -- as installed they
are 755, and will be returned to that state once I can change the
owner/group



Can someone please suggest a course of action to solve this?


Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
 
Medina Christian Academy
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