Quoting Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Everyone,
> The work around is much simpler than I remembered. Follow the these
> instructions to fix the ownership problem. Replace yourname with your
> SourceForge unix user name.
>
> $ cd /home/groups/leaf/htdocs
> $ mv yourname ..
> $ cp -R ../yourname .
if you change this to "cp -a ../yourname ." I believe the timestamp information
will be preserved.
> $ rm -rf ../yourname
> $ cd /home/groups/ftp/pub/leaf/devel
> $ mv yourname ..
> $ $ cp -R ../yourname .
and the same here...
> $ rm -rf ../yourname
>
> note: this does destroy the file's time stamp information.
[...]
The -a option trys to preserve the file attributes. In this case it will also
try to preserve the ownership, but because you don't have permission to create
files as another user, it should preserve everything except the ownership.
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