On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:08:59AM -0700, Tonnesen Steve wrote:
> Why is conversion of old systems so difficult? If mail changed from uid 8
> to uid 7, for example, wouldn't:
>
> find -uid 8 -exec chown mail \{\} \;
> find -gid 8 -exec chgrp mail \{\} \;
That's stupid. It would traverse the whole filesystem for each change. We
would need a little program looking at each file and adjusting the permissions
to the new settings.
cu
Torsten