Re: chown -R wierd under RH9

["Billy Davis" <bdavis cds-corp com>]

Could be, but I don't think so.  The old directory was on an RH8 server and
I did not have problems with chown -R on that system.  Unfortunately, there
are thousands of files and directorys in 'tools', so it will take a while to
see.

bdavis


----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Croft" <ecroft openratings com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: chown -R wierd under RH9


> 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
> >
> >
>
>
>
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