Dear All,
Thanks a lot for providing me the pointers.
Now i could create the homedirectories of 420 students with explicit chown and
chgrp privilgeses.
The thing was that the groups didnt exist so was not accepted in the chown
command.
Now that i have solved my problem, Thanks a zillion!!!
jmaan
--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with this script ??
To: "Perry Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], beginners@perl.org
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 4:07 AM
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 17:25 -0500, Perry Smith wrote:
> I would first verify that you can do what you need to do with one
> individual directory from the shell. i.e. make sure you can chown,
> chgrp, and chmod -- what ever other commands you are needing to do.
On many *NIX systems, commands like chown and chgrp are restricted so
that you cannot steal quotas. Only sudo users can run them.
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