On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:55 -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote:
On Aug 31, 2006, at 8:29 AM, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 07:54 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 18:29 +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have got CentOS 64bit running on a Dell PowerEdge SC1850 with hardware raid 1. My LVM partions donot seem to honour chown commands for symbolic links. Is this normal? All other files and directories honour it.
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chown -h or chown --no-dereference
will change the ownership of the link source instead of the target (regardless of LVM)
EGAD! I should (re-)read a man page at least once each decade! :-(
For Linux and some others, true, but we need to be alert to
-h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (use- ful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)
Tony Schreiner
I'm trying to imagine exactly how/when I would want to use this.
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