Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:42:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is "chown -h -R" forbidden? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971026234216.12269V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710210633.IAA17716@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > When trying to run > > chown -h -R user.group file ... > > I get the message > > chown: the -R and -h options may not be specified together > > Why is this so? I want to pass a whole file hierarchy over > to a user; including the symlinks (not what they point at). -R and -h are mutually exclusive. See chown(8); try the -H option. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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