2009/8/13 John Matthews <jake...@sky.com>: > Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my > server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders > ownership, but not everything inside. > > the script I used was > > sudo chown www-data:www-data and filename > > I think I need to add the -R some where to make it recursive, but not > sure where to add it. Should it be after the filename, or before. > > Thank you. > > John.
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data datadirectory $ chown --help $ man chown -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/