Re: chown -R wierd under RH9

[Edward Croft <ecroft openratings com>]

Just curious, could there possibly be a link in the subdirectory
pointing to a top directory?

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 14:53, Billy Davis wrote:
> We just installed a fresh RH9 Server.   After loading an existing  directory
> from another server, I decided to change the owner.  I change to
> /home/accounting/tools and entered 'chown -R service *'.  I then noticed
> that not only did every file both in and below the tools directory have the
> new owner (which is what I expected), but so did EVERY file and subdirectory
> ABOVE the ' tools' directory.  This has caused a mess.   I thought that
> 'recursive' meant 'everything in the current directory and below'.  Has
> something changed in RH9 with chown, or what????  Is there an easy fix??
> 
> Thanks,
> bdavis
> 
>