[SunHELP] Chown

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> 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.


 What is the output of 'ls -ld mysteriousDirectoryName' and what exactly
are you typing as which user?

 -david