"Andrew Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hi ,
|
| I found that chown --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP does not work. It
| gave back a success status but did not actually change a file's user and/or
| group. I had tried this on RedHat 7.0 and SuSe 7.1.
Thanks for the report!
I'll have to add a root-only test for this.
Here's a fix:
Index: chown.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/fileutils/src/chown.c,v
retrieving revision 1.95
diff -u -p -r1.95 chown.c
--- chown.c 2001/02/17 14:23:43 1.95
+++ chown.c 2001/05/07 20:16:40
@@ -173,11 +173,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
case FROM_OPTION:
{
char *u_dummy, *g_dummy;
- const char *e = parse_user_spec (argv[optind],
+ const char *e = parse_user_spec (optarg,
&old_uid, &old_gid,
&u_dummy, &g_dummy);
if (e)
- error (1, 0, "%s: %s", quote (argv[optind]), e);
+ error (1, 0, "%s: %s", quote (optarg), e);
break;
}
case 'R':
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