Problems changing permissions

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:48 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 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".
> > 
> > ----
> > 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
> $
----
you may very well be right on this - I thought the shell passed the
commands over to the binary.

Craig


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