chown: Function not implemented

[cfm@maine.com]

Is this right?  root can not change ownership of a symlink?


Script started on Fri Dec 11 17:24:24 1998

root@headwall.maine.com:/w/w3/journal/mainepress# touch foo
root@headwall.maine.com:/w/w3/journal/mainepress# chown webmaster:spider foo
root@headwall.maine.com:/w/w3/journal/mainepress# ln -s foo bar
root@headwall.maine.com:/w/w3/journal/mainepress# chown webmaster:spider bar
chown: bar: Function not implemented
root@headwall.maine.com:/w/w3/journal/mainepress# ls -l ???
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Dec 11 17:24 bar -> foo
-rw-r--r--   1 webmaste spider          0 Dec 11 17:24 foo
root@headwall.maine.com:/w/w3/journal/mainepress# exit
exit

Script done on Fri Dec 11 17:24:53 1998


cfm

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