"Duane Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently chown also grabs .. all the way up to /home and changes > that ownership as well as any users in /home > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/dcox# chown -Rv dcox.users .*
The pattern ".*" matches "..", so chown sees ".." as one of its arguments and dutifully processes that directory. Since you're using -R, you probably want to use just "." instead. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
