Re: chown -R wierd under RH9

[Robert Adkins <radkins impelind com>]

Heheh... I did a TYPO!

	I typed 'chmod' when I should have typed 'chown' sorry for the
mis-type!
	
	Regards,
	Rob

	

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 15:41, Billy Davis wrote:
> I have never used your format before, but it sure makes sense.  I will try
> that from now on.  Thanks for the help.
> 
> bdavis
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Adkins" <radkins impelind com>
> To: "Red Hat - General" <redhat-list redhat com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: chown -R wierd under RH9
> 
> 
> > 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
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > redhat-list mailing list
> > > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request redhat com?subject=unsubscribe
> > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > redhat-list mailing list
> > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request redhat com?subject=unsubscribe
> > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > redhat-list mailing list
> > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request redhat com?subject=unsubscribe
> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request redhat com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>