On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:21:10PM +0000, Dave Howorth said > I'm having trouble changing the group of a directory. I'm sure I'm doing > something dumb, but I can't spot it :) > > dhoworth@pcx36:~$ chgrp www-data tmp > chgrp: changing group of `tmp': Operation not permitted > dhoworth@pcx36:~$ groups dhoworth > dhoworth : dhoworth root adm www-data staff > dhoworth@pcx36:~$ ls -ld tmp > drwxr-xr-x 3 dhoworth dhoworth 4096 Feb 19 11:25 tmp/ > dhoworth@pcx36:~$ ls -ld . > drwxr-xr-x 50 dhoworth dhoworth 4096 Feb 24 12:13 ./ > > I'm the owner of the directory. I belong to the new group. I don't > understand what's stopping me doing the chgrp? Is it on a DOS (vfat/ntfs) filesystem? Can root chgrp it? -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: industrial espionage Debian Ft. Knox STARLAN Delta Force
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