I saw the parent post - I am glad you responded before me As regards chown/grp it would probably have been easier to type chown <user> dir chgrp <user> dir
grrrh people saying rtfm is not good for new recruits On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 21:58, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 12:49, David Busby wrote: > > When I create a mail directory as a user the 'ls -l' output looks like > > drwxrwxr-x 5 busby busby 4096 Oct 3 16:57 mail > > > > But if I create the mail directory as root for that user and (chmod > > 0775) the output looks like > > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 3 16:57 mail > > > > When I create as root my PostFix install has a problem placing mail into > > the ~/mail directory. How can I switch the owner of the directory to > > make the directory I created have the permissions of "5 busby busby" not > > "2 root root". > > chown busby.busby mail > > you have to be root to change the ownership to another user. > > info changown has lots of stuff about these gnu utilites > > What do the 5 and the 1 mean? > > from the above mentioned info file for ls > > `-l' > `--format=long' > `--format=verbose' > In addition to the name of each file, print the file type, > permissions, number of hard links, owner name, group name, size in > bytes, and timestamp (by default, the modification time). For > files with a time more than six months old or in the future, the > timestamp contains the year instead of the time of day. If the > timestamp contains today's date with the year rather than a time > of day, the file's time is in the future, which means you probably > have clock skew problems which may break programs like `make' that > rely on file times. > > number of hard links is the answer. typically there will be one added > for each directory under the dir in question in addition to the 2 that > are always there. I think the two hardlinks are one for the directory > that is obvioulsy in the parent dir and the one that is listed in the > dir itself as . or "this directory" > > not a bad idea to play around with it until you understand it. > > the following is what I get after creating three dirs: > $ mkdir testdir > $ mkdir testdir/testdir1 > $ mkdir testdir/testdir2 > > $ tree testdir/ > testdir/ > |-- testdir1 > `-- testdir2 > > 2 directories, 0 files > $ ls -d testdir > testdir > $ ls -ld testdir > drwxrwxr-x 4 exhibito exhibito 4096 Oct 4 15:55 testdir > > $ rmdir testdir/testdir1 > $ ls -ld testdir > drwxrwxr-x 3 exhibito exhibito 4096 Oct 4 16:00 testdir > > > HTH Bret > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
