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27 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
ru
71e2293ad4 mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 20:10:44 +00:00
peter
dcb2b59522 Initialize vflag like the rest (not necessary, but this keeps it together)
Optimize out chown(2) syscalls if there is no change in uid or gid.
2000-07-29 22:22:11 +00:00
obrien
f9382c8a43 Somehow I didn't get all the "-v" code commited.
Submitted by:	Arindum Mukerji <rmukerji@execpc.com>
Approved by:	JKH

Make the manpage more style(9) complient.
2000-03-08 16:31:42 +00:00
obrien
dc40bd8713 Revert rev 1.3. chown(8)-like functionality has been added to mknod(8)
and MAKEDEV(8) will be changed to not use chown(8), thus removing the
depdendance on a having /usr mounted.
2000-01-06 05:30:38 +00:00
obrien
7ecbe9c845 Install chown' into /sbin rather than /usr/sbin as chown' is needed by
`MAKEDEV'.  And one might need to `MAKEDEV' inorder to get a device node
in order to mount /usr from.
1999-12-14 04:48:17 +00:00
obrien
9fc872877e Add "-v". 1999-11-27 19:25:08 +00:00
charnier
8eb0be13fb add .Sh DIAGNOSTICS 1999-10-17 15:50:19 +00:00
charnier
9cb1556e4f space is not allowed between owner and :group. 1999-10-08 21:38:08 +00:00
peter
efabb9ccb1 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:35:59 +00:00
nik
559bbb333e Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The Id line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:12:29 +00:00
bde
1aa46dab33 Backed out previous commit. chown(8) doesn't follow symlinks by
default, at least in BSD.  This used to be automatic, because chown(2)
didn't follow symlinks.  When chown(2) was changed to follow symlinks
in BSD4.4, chown(8) was changed to not follow symlinks by default.
The previous commit broke this.  The first victim was bsd.prog.mk,
which uses a plain chown in an attempt to change the ownership of the
symlinks to `dm' in /usr/games.  This fails when it is done before
dm is installed, or messes up the ownership of dm if dm is installed.

Unfixed problems:
1. When lchown(2) was implemented, chown(8) wasn't changed to implement
   the historical behaviour of changing ownership of symlinks.  I'm not
   sure if it should have been.  The -HLP options give more complete
   control, but they unfortunately don't apply unless the -R option is
   specified (a problem shared with other commands, e.g., cp; I guess
   we're supposed to use -R even for non-recursive traversals).
2. If we implement the historical behaviour, then -h would become a no-op
   and should be left undocumented.
3. The man page suggests that without option -h, all symlinks (to files
   specified in the command line?) are followed.  It's not clear what
   "the file" is.  These bugs were introduced when -h was documented.
4. The correct interaction of -h with the other flags is not clear.
1998-05-03 04:17:48 +00:00
helbig
52007a8cf8 Don't ignore symbolic links in the absence of -h, -H or -L options.
Instead change the user ID/group ID of the file that the link points to.
1998-05-02 12:57:57 +00:00
jkh
8c2e3b0218 Allow -R and -h to be combined as long as no symlink-following flags
are also requested.
Submitted by:	Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
1998-03-09 08:54:31 +00:00
wosch
354c4ae899 Chown(8) compiled with -DSUPPORT_DOT (backward compatibility) does
first check for a `.' and then for `:' as a delimiter.
Usernames with a dot will fail.

# chown r.r:bin /tmp/bla
chown: r:bin: illegal group name

Fix: first check for a `:' and then for a `.'
1997-09-21 09:13:57 +00:00
charnier
d3d26f623e Cosmetic in man page. Sync usage() with man page. 1997-09-04 11:55:45 +00:00
steve
8a12554e3f Correct error message when the superuser tries to change
the group of immutable files.

PR:		bin/3445
Submitted by:	Pius Fischer <pius@ienet.com>
1997-08-24 02:10:29 +00:00
peter
526a6977d3 Activate the -h flag which tells chown/chgrp to work on the symlink itself
using lchown().  Most of the code was already here, the option was
recognised but ignored for SYSV/POSIX.2(?) compatability.
1997-03-31 13:03:49 +00:00
imp
691010efad compare return value from getopt against -1 rather than EOF, per the final
posix standard on the topic.
1997-03-31 05:11:47 +00:00
peter
b782f4df30 Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$ 1997-02-22 16:15:28 +00:00
wosch
3c5e4a3bbe Sort cross references. 1997-01-20 00:03:00 +00:00
jkh
808a36ef65 Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore.  This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1997-01-14 07:20:47 +00:00
wosch
ab0ebe585d [HISTORY] command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX
Obtained from: A Quarter Century of UNIX, Peter H. Salus, page 41
1996-08-29 18:06:19 +00:00
adam
021b988ec4 chown(8) and chgrp(1) directories once only 1996-08-14 18:13:58 +00:00
rgrimes
4f960dd75f Remove trailing whitespace. 1995-05-30 03:57:47 +00:00
dg
be96a45601 groups[] is of type gid_t. 1994-09-23 10:02:21 +00:00
wollman
d7fca5c189 Get rid of update. Make man page installation work with our scheme
(and rename a few in the process).
1994-08-05 16:31:05 +00:00
rgrimes
862fdf11a2 BSD 4.4 Lite usr.sbin Sources 1994-05-26 05:23:31 +00:00