Saso Zivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, not exactly a bug I think. There is an option '--from' mentioned in my > man pages (Suse 7.2), but I couldn't find it mentioned on the web. Plus, if I > use it, it doesn't work, or, put it this way, it works too much: I can't > change what I want. Here's what I do (as user 'saso' and as root): > > saso@avani:~/temp > ll cobiss > -rw-rw-r-- 1 saso users 4942 Nov 1 21:13 cobiss > saso@avani:~/temp > chown -v --from=saso:users saso:saso cobiss > saso@avani:~/temp > ll cobiss > -rw-rw-r-- 1 saso users 4942 Nov 1 21:13 cobiss > saso@avani:~/temp > > > Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for the report. That is due to a bug in fileutils-4.1. It's fixed in the latest test release: * chown's --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP option now works ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.1.tar.gz _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
