Problems changing permissions

[Timothy A. Holmes]

> > 
> > 
> >>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
> $
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you may very well be right on this - I thought the shell passed the
commands over to the binary.

Craig


[Timothy A. Holmes] 
I cant speak to this -- I have always just used chown without a path
attached

TIM