Re: chown

[cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM EDT, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:49:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (15/08/06 09:29), Kent West wrote:
> > > Hmm; on my box:
> > > 
> > > westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> man 2 chown
> > > No manual entry for chown in section 2
> > > See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
> > 
> > Hi Kent
> > 
> > $ man chown 
> > 
> > works here; it seems to be in 1
> 
> chown(1) is the command-line program.  chown(2) is the underlying system
> call used by chown(1) to do its dirty work, which is relevant here
> because chown(2)'s man page explicitly mentions that it only works for
> priviliged users, but chown(1)'s doesn't.
> 
> Now if I could just figure out why the command-line program is in
> section 1 ("Executable programs or shell commands") rather than section
> 8 ("System administration commands (usually only for root)")...
> 
I hadn't thought of that.. hehe..

Maybe because the complete manual is not the man page but the info
thing?

Thanks

cga