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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers chown: <file>: Not owner on Solaris 9 Post 302583032 by jim mcnamara on Monday 19th of December 2011 10:30:06 AM
Old 12-19-2011
What do you get from the following commands?
Code:
id -a
## cd ..  (up one level)  dir == the name of the dir the  iamgal file lives in
ls -ld dir

You have to have write access to the directory and own the file to chown it. Unless you are root. That seems to be true in this case, but something is going on.

Last edited by radoulov; 12-20-2011 at 05:54 AM.. Reason: Code tags fixed.
 

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CHOWN(3)								 1								  CHOWN(3)

chown - Changes file owner

SYNOPSIS
bool chown (string $filename, mixed $user) DESCRIPTION
Attempts to change the owner of the file $filename to user $user. Only the superuser may change the owner of a file. PARAMETERS
o $filename - Path to the file. o $user - A user name or number. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Simple chown(3) usage <?php // File name and username to use $file_name= "foo.php"; $path = "/home/sites/php.net/public_html/sandbox/" . $file_name ; $user_name = "root"; // Set the user chown($path, $user_name); // Check the result $stat = stat($path); print_r(posix_getpwuid($stat['uid'])); ?> The above example will output something similar to: Array ( [name] => root [passwd] => x [uid] => 0 [gid] => 0 [gecos] => root [dir] => /root [shell] => /bin/bash ) NOTES
Note This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem. Note When safe mode is enabled, PHP checks whether the files or directories being operated upon have the same UID (owner) as the script that is being executed. SEE ALSO
chmod(3), chgrp(3). PHP Documentation Group CHOWN(3)
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