On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:17:38AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:47:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: > > > chown root.disk /home/amanda/libexec/runtar > > > > All the chown's I've used require a colon (':'), > > not a period ('.') between the user and group. > > It's a BSD-ism that's been inherited into the GNU tools. POSIX > technically disallows it because a username is allowed to contain > dots. >
My bad. I looked at the docs on two linux systems I have and saw the ":", no ".", in the synopsis and my eye picked up the word colon in the text but overlooked the word "dot". -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)