1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I don't know how the owner & group of a login file in redhat linux 7.2 changed to bache like, -rwxr-xr-x 1 bache bache 17740 Jun 20 02:05 login I am trying to change the owner and group to root by using #chown root login #chgrp root login But i am getting the error ... (7 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to change the owner of group? -rw-r--r-- 1 lead lead Now I need to change LEAD to SUBLEAD.. how do I do this. I am using this command. $chown -R sublead test.lck I get this message chown: test.lck: Not owner I am logged in a LEAD.. All your help in regards are greatly... (16 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to change the owner of the file? Can I change the owner of file/ files? I am user and not admin.(not logged as root) (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

im running into changing the ownership of a file. I am trying to change the ownership to "system", but it doesn't want to work. I sudo chown system /preferences.plist Password: chown: system: Invalid argument is there a way to read the ownership of a file, something like read chown... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

sm860 IS the owner of the files below,but yet sm860 cannot change the ownership to bpt3a1.Please let me know why ? See below for details --- sm860@unixs741_DEV:/usr/gdp/home/ftp/bpt3a1/incoming/ahdb/T5/pcasav/daily $ ls -l pcasav* -rw-r--r-- 1 sm860 gdpintegrators 821 Sep 21 16:15... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, i have a file and i want to change the owner of that file from another user. for example $ ls -l pkc.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 tdmscrdr dba 717 Nov 2 17:10 pkc.txt the owner of pkc.txt file is tdmscrdr and group is dba i want to change the owner of this file from... (7 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi Folks, I know that changing users and groups is pretty basic admin, but this one has got me stumped. When I try to change the group of a file for which I am the owner for, it still gives me a 'Not owner' error. For example, when I am logged in as 'webadmin', I have the following file: ... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to find what are the files having owner as 'palani' my entire filesystem ( sub directories ) and needs to change the owner ( chown ) to 'raju'. Can anyone help on this to write a shell script. Thanks in advance. (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to change the owner ship of the soft link lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 29 16:27 soft_test -> test I need to change the above owner ship to httpd:httpd Whats the shell command i need to use for it :) (2 Replies)

10. Solaris

i need to do the following operations in solaris 10: 1.change owner and group owner for files which are not owned by the current user and user group 2.to can delete files in the /tmp directory which are not of the current user 3. allow to a standard user the deletion of files in the /tmp... (1 Reply)