Date: 21 Dec 2002 00:22:32 +1100 From: Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: chown broken?? Message-ID: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost>
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Hello
I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file
permissions incorrectly:
$ su
$ cd /data
$ chown -R andrew:wheel *
$ chown -R andrew:wheel .*
For some reason the last command was interpreted as:
$ chown -R andrew:wheel /*
I just cvsuped to 4.7 a few days ago, still running 4.7-RELEASE GENERIC
kernel.
Why does the behaviour of chown change when u r root?
Surely this is a bug?
And what the hell is this crap in the man page about -R:
-R Change the user ID and/or the group ID for the file
hierarchies rooted in the files instead of just the files
themselves.
As always, any assistance is appreciated!
Cheers,
--
Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com>
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