Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] Using chown in Perl scripts

["Robert Fitzpatrick" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>   CORRECT:  this small cut from my "perl" book:
> 
> chown(LIST)
> chown LIST
>   This function changes the owner (and group) of a list of files.  
The first 
> two elements of the list MUST be the NUMERICAL uid and gid in that 
order.....
> ......

Perfect, thank you:) My Perl online reference did not extend into the 
NUMERICAL information, I left my book at the office this weekend. The 
number thing played a big factor in my failing. I had already tried to 
reverse the order of the chmod and chown. Another problem that was 
causing problems was my quotes around the directory name in the chown 
function. I changed it to pass the directory path into a variable and 
then use the variable instead without the quotes (with the uid and gid 
NUMBERS, of course) and whala!

Thanks again for the feedback...

--
Robert