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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Chown - error Post 302397003 by sid1982 on Saturday 20th of February 2010 11:07:37 AM
Old 02-20-2010
Thanks Scott. I am able to delete the files now.

I have a problem something similar to this. I copied a directory from one of my fellow users belonging to the same user group to my home path. I still the see the actual owner's name. How do I make myself the owner of the directory that is copied to my directory. I used chown and it doesn't work.

Code:
drwxr-xr-x   8 user1 usergrp       1024 Jan 14 13:53 Financials

I have copied the directory Financials to my home directory. Now I need to change the owner from user1 to user2 (my user id). When I use "chown" it is throwing an error

Code:
chown user2 Financials
chown: Financials: Not owner



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I even asked user1 to issue the command chown and even he gets the same message that he is not a owner. It is weird.
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
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