Re: chown -R wierd under RH9

[Robert Adkins <radkins impelind com>]

Goodness, that is a scary result...

	I would have to recommend against using a wildcard character all by
itself when running such a command. It is likely that using that
wildcard all alone smacked your system.

	It would have been more correct to do the following...

	chmod -R root:service tools

	or even...

	chmod -R root:service to* 

	While 'sitting' in a directory right above the 'tools' directory. If,
in your case, the directory 'tools' was on a '/' location of your
system, then that is why everything was reset to being 'owned' by
'service'.

	Wish you luck in getting it back up into working order.

	Regards,
	Robert Adkins
	IT Manger/Buyer
	Impel Industries, Inc.

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 15:11, Billy Davis wrote:
> 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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