loss of Preferences

[Willis Taylor]

Wulfy wrote:
> Willis Taylor wrote:
>> Wulfy wrote:
>>> The permissions seem OK.  Who owns the files?  You or root?  If 
>>> root, then you'll have to do what Nils suggested...
>>>
>> I see.  They are owned by root but I am signed in as the superuser to 
>> straighten this out so how do I?
>
> In the Konqueror window that shows the files, right-click and choose 
> Actions/Open Terminal Here.  The type the command Nils gave you:
>
> sudo chown -R <your log on>:<your log on> /home/<your log on>
>
> That will ask you for your password...
>
>
I am forwarding the attempts and the results.  I firmly believe you are 
on the right track but there is something that needs fine tuning.

Bill Taylor
Killer Spade 806
1968, '69

root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# sudo chown -r th1bill:th1bill /home/th1bill
chown: invalid option -- r
Try `chown --help' for more information.
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# sudo chown -r th1bill:th1bill /home/th1bill
chown: invalid option -- r
Try `chown --help' for more information.
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# chown help
chown: missing operand after `help'
Try `chown --help' for more information.
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# chown -- r
chown: missing operand after `r'
Try `chown --help' for more information.
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# sudo chown-r th1bill:th1bill/home/th1bill
sudo: chown-r: command not found
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# sudo chown th1bill:th1bill/home/th1bill
chown: missing operand after `th1bill:th1bill/home/th1bill'
Try `chown --help' for more information.
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# sudo chown -r th1bill:th1bill/home/th1bill
chown: invalid option -- r
Try `chown --help' for more information.
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# chown --help
Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
  or:  chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.
With --reference, change the owner and group of each FILE to those of RFILE.

  -c, --changes          like verbose but report only when a change is made
      --dereference      affect the referent of each symbolic link, rather
                         than the symbolic link itself (this is the default)
  -h, --no-dereference   affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced
                         file (useful only on systems that can change the
                         ownership of a symlink)
      --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP
                         change the owner and/or group of each file only if
                         its current owner and/or group match those 
specified
                         here.  Either may be omitted, in which case a match
                         is not required for the omitted attribute.
      --no-preserve-root  do not treat `/' specially (the default)
      --preserve-root    fail to operate recursively on `/'
  -f, --silent, --quiet  suppress most error messages
      --reference=RFILE  use RFILE's owner and group rather than
                         the specifying OWNER:GROUP values
  -R, --recursive        operate on files and directories recursively
  -v, --verbose          output a diagnostic for every file processed

The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the -R
option is also specified.  If more than one is specified, only the final
one takes effect.

  -H                     if a command line argument is a symbolic link
                         to a directory, traverse it
  -L                     traverse every symbolic link to a directory
                         encountered
  -P                     do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

Owner is unchanged if missing.  Group is unchanged if missing, but changed
to login group if implied by a `:' following a symbolic OWNER.
OWNER and GROUP may be numeric as well as symbolic.

Examples:
  chown root /u        Change the owner of /u to "root".
  chown root:staff /u  Likewise, but also change its group to "staff".
  chown -hR root /u    Change the owner of /u and subfiles to "root".

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils at gnu.org>.
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# chown root:root th1bill:th1bill /home/th1bill
chown: cannot access `th1bill:th1bill': No such file or directory
root at bill-spare:/home/th1bill# chown root:root th1bill:th1bill /home/th1bill

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