When using "find -user" and "chown", you have to beware of symlinks. The find will find symlinks owned by that user, but chown will change the ownership of the file pointed to, not the symlink itself. When fixing up file ownerships like this, it's better to use chown -h
Strangely, chown and chmod don't seem to work on symlinks. In particular, I tried this (as root):
# touch foo
# ln -s foo mysymlink
# chown SOMEUSER mysymlink
as well as changing the last line to:
# chown -h someuser mysymlink
where "-h" is supposed to change the UID of the actualy... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file in my system as below
My user and grp id is sns / sns
-rwxrwxrwx 1 sns sns 6012357 Sep 27 06:01 sample
Is there a way to change the owner and grp of this file to app / app ... ie. as given below
-rwxrwxrwx 1 app app 6012357 Sep 27 06:01 sample
I guessed... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I own a file, when i try to change the owner of my file to other user it is throwing error like
chown: changing ownership of `a.txt': Not owner
my OS is sunOS 5.8
Thanks. (1 Reply)
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)
hai,
I am new to Unix, I have a requirement to display owner name , directory or sub directory name, who's owner name is not equal to "oasitqtc".
(here "oasitqtc" is the owner of the directory or sub directory.)
i have a command (below) which will display all folders and sub folders, but i... (6 Replies)
Would the owner as listed , be the one who made the directory in the first place. when any one could use chown in a script.
I do not know where this directory came form or who made it. And am attempting to just find out more info on it.
what could i use to find its origins and its why does it... (3 Replies)
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)
Hi.
My example:
I have a filesystem /log. Everyday, log files are copied to /log. I'd like to set owner and permission for files and directories in /log like that
chown -R log_adm /log/*
chmod -R 544 /log/*It's OK, but just at that time. When a new log file or new directory is created in /log,... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
xsetselectionowner
XSetSelectionOwner() XSetSelectionOwner()
Name
XSetSelectionOwner - set the owner of a selection.
Synopsis
XSetSelectionOwner(display, selection, owner, time)
Display *display;
Atom selection;
Window owner;
Time time;
Arguments
display Specifies a connection to an X server; returned from XOpenDisplay().
selection Specifies the selection atom. Predefined atoms are XA_PRIMARY and XA_SECONDARY.
owner Specifies the desired owner of the specified selection atom. This value is either a window ID or None.
time Specifies the time when the selection should take place. Pass either a timestamp, expressed in milliseconds, or the constant
CurrentTime.
Description
XSetSelectionOwner() sets the owner and last-change time of a selection property. This should be called by an application that supports
cutting and pasting between windows (or at least cutting), when the user has made a selection of any kind of text, graphics, or data. This
makes the information available so that other applications can request the data from the new selection owner using XConvertSelection(),
which generates a SelectionRequest event specifying the desired type and format of the data. Then the selection owner sends a SelectionNo-
tify using XSendEvent(), which notes that the information is stored in the selection property in the desired format or indicates that it
couldn't do the conversion to the desired type.
If owner is specified as None, then this client is giving up ownership voluntarily. Otherwise, the new owner is the client executing the
request.
If the new selection owner is not the same client as the old owner, and the new owner is a window, then the old owner is sent a Selection-
Clear event. This indicates to the old owner that the selection should be unhighlighted.
If the selection owner window is later destroyed, the owner of the selection automatically reverts to None.
The value you pass to the time argument must be no earlier than the last-change time of the specified selection, and no later than the cur-
rent time, or the selection is not affected. The new last-change time recorded is the specified time, with CurrentTime replaced by the
current server time. If the X server reverts a selection owner to None, the last-change time is not affected.
For more information on selections, see Volume One, Chapter 12, Interclient Communication.
Errors
BadAtom
BadWindow
See Also
XConvertSelection(), XGetSelectionOwner().
Xlib - Selections XSetSelectionOwner()