Public SourceMage Discussion List

["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

> Not any sane delimiter, GNU chown only respects colon or dot.  However, dot
> is deprecated.  From the chown info page:
> 
>    Some older scripts may still use `.' in place of the `:' separator.
>    POSIX 1003.1-2001 (*note Standards conformance::) does not require
>    support for that, but for backward compatibility GNU `chown' supports
>    `.' so long as no ambiguity results.  New scripts should avoid the use
>    of `.' because it is not portable, and because it has undesirable
>    results if the entire OWNER`.'GROUP happens to identify a user whose
>    name contains `.'.
> 

Tnx will fix it... gaahhh I hate the colon all the time...


-- 
Andrew "ruskie" Levstik
Source Mage GNU/Linux Games grimoire guru

http://ruskie.dtdm.org/blog/