loss of Preferences

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:29:14 -0600
Willis Taylor <gods-servant at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I am forwarding the attempts and the results.  I firmly believe you are 
> on the right track but there is something that needs fine tuning.

The "-R" option is *upper case*

Example:

sudo chown -R peter:peter /home/peter

Will recursively change ownership of all files in /home/peter to
user=peter, group=peter.

If issued as root, the "sudo" becomes redundant. ( sudo gives you root
rights).

HTH

Peter

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