Stupid Ubuntu 8.10

[NoOp]

On 11/09/2008 07:44 AM, Joel Goguen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 07:33 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> Perhaps you mean:
>> 
>> sudo chown -R vafa:vafa /MyDirectory
>> 
>> notice the colon between vafa and vafa vs the period.
> Either one works.  The form with a dot is older, but chown accepts it no
> problem.
> 
> 

Perhaps. But if troubleshooting a problem regarding permissions,
ownership etc (such as this thread), I'd recommend _only_ using the
methods and examples listed in 'man chown'.