Stupid Ubuntu 8.10

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 09:20 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> But if troubleshooting a problem regarding permissions,
> ownership etc (such as this thread), I'd recommend _only_ using the
> methods and examples listed in 'man chown'.

Thanks for the pointer, I've used the dot notation for a decade and
never noticed that the manpage specifies the colon. NEvertheless, I
never had problem with it.