Look at the following script:
Script started on Thu Aug 03 18:12:42 1995
(382) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists: ls -ld .
drwxrwxr-x 2 root maillists 8192 Aug 3 18:12 .
(383) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists: touch foo
(384) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists: ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmaynard maillists 0 Aug 3 18:12 foo
(385) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists: groups
users system gopher news www maillists
(386) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists: chown majordomo foo
chown: foo: Not owner
(387) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists: ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmaynard maillists 0 Aug 3 18:12 foo
(388) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists: ls -l k5zc
-rw-r--r-- 1 majordomomaillists 9 Aug 3 18:12 k5zc
(389) jmaynard_at_admin5:/usr/local/etc/lists:
script done on Thu Aug 03 18:13:34 1995
I must be doing something dumb...I could have sworn when I created a file
via touch, that I became its owner, as the ls output shows...yet chown
complains.
I'm running OSF/1 3.2A on an Alphaserver 2100 4/200. Help? This is going to
make it hard for me to hand off mailing list maintenance to someone else...
as things stand now, I have to give him the root password.
(BTW, Majordomo 1.93, with perl 5.001i, appear to be working fine...)
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
http://k5zc.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"These signposts will guide us, Pinky. Glade of Woe...no...Chasm of
Despair...no...Pit of Barbecue...maybe later..." -- The Brain
Received on Fri Aug 04 1995 - 01:38:06 NZST