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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:25:59 -0400
From:      Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problem changing ownership of a link
Message-ID:  <20000824082558.B1337@csh.rit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <39A51372.66EC90DE@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:22:10AM -0500
References:  <39A51372.66EC90DE@math.missouri.edu>

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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:22:10AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> If xxx is a soft link, I am finding that the chown
> command has no effect in changing ownership of xxx:
> 
> if xxx is owned by bob, then
> chown fred xxx
> seems to have no effect at all.
 
% chown -h user symlink

This should have been asked on -questions.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member


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