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Re: [cobalt-users] permission denied during ftp
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] permission denied during ftp
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Aug 18 06:11:01 2001
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Dave wrote:
> Be VERY careful of using this switch. -R or --recursive allows chown to
> traverse subdirectories recursively, applying changes. This means every
> subdirectory will also be chown'd. We have seen examples on this list of
> ENTIRE servers becoming ROOT after this command was used improperly.
Yes, I just chown all of the cgi and pl files.
Jeff
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