Dear Wolf
It still has not solved my problem completely,
The output is shown below :-
drwxr-xr-x 2 s08-1-5-095 3051 4096 2008-08-21 20:57 s08-1-5-095
drwxr-xr-x 2 s08-1-5-096 3052 4096 2008-08-21 20:57 s08-1-5-096
drwxr-xr-x 2 s08-1-5-097 3053 4096 2008-08-21 20:57 s08-1-5-097
The group wonership is being shown as gidNumber instead of "s08-1-5-097".
why ?
Let me try out till I received a reply from your end.
At first what i did was manually created the a dir using
mkdir s08-1-5-097
then
i typed
id s08-1-5-097
And then typed the command:-
chown 3053:3053 /root/perl/s08-1-5-097
ls -l shows the following :
drwxr-xr-x 2 s08-1-5-097 3053 4096 2008-08-21 21:00 s08-1-5-097
here, everything is fine but i do need to show up the owner "uid" only as the
group owner. In bothe cases the uidNumber and gidNumber was used but then why
in the latter case it is not showing up??
Any pointers ??
--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with this script ??
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 8:05 PM
---- Jyotishmaan Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> No it does nt work out as shown below:-
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl]# chown s08-1-5-095:s08-1-5-095 /root/perl/s08-1-5-095
> chown: `s08-1-5-095:s08-1-5-095': invalid group
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl]# chown $s08-1-5-095:$s08-1-5-095
/root/perl/s08-1-5-095
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl]# chown $s08-1-5-095:$s08-1-5-095
$/root/perl/s08-1-5-095
> chown: invalid option -- 1
> Try `chown --help' for more information.
> <!-- SNIP -->
>
> try using:
> chown $id:$gid $dir
>
> so that it would be
> chown 3051:3051 /home/users/s01-5-097 (or whatever)
Obviously you didn't follow the examples I provided, or you would have seen
that it should have worked, considering it works the world over on all *NIX
systems I have ever encountered.
Please read further into your sys admin manuals and the manual pages for chown.
Once you have fixed your errors, the command will work. Unitil you have fixed
your errors though, the issues will remain.
Wolf
