[SunHELP] Chown

Magnus Abrante sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 18 02:23:15 CST 2001


Sounds like you either isn't root or you have mounted the directory from
an NFS server which does not export it with the root flag.

	//Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */


> I was wondering if anyone has run into this problem.
> 
> I have a directory which is owned by a user. The user is no longer  in
> the department.
> My delimma is that as root, or as the user's Id, I can not change the
> ownership of the file.
> All attribute are correct. However when I try to change the ownership of
> the directory, I get an error saying chown;filename: not owner.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Juan (Johnny) Garza
> 
> 




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