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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:48:00 +0800
From:      Jahilliya <jahilliya@gmail.com>
To:        "Rachel Florentine" <rachel_florentine@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Translate This Command?
Message-ID:  <ba5e78ea0611200448w7ed4a04t73ff0bf7ede163d1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061120115035.91895.qmail@web57815.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <20061120115035.91895.qmail@web57815.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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On 11/20/06, Rachel Florentine <rachel_florentine@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi;
> I'm reading a how-to and it tells me to issue this command:
>
> chown -R alias.qmail ~alias/rejoice
>
> But that errors. What's the BSD translation?
> TIA,
> Rachel
>
I'm guessing it's error is something about invalid user/group...

Try using a colon instead of a ., so alias.qmail becomes alias:qmail



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