Problems changing permissions

[Mike McCarty]

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 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
> 
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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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