Stupid Ubuntu 8.10

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 11/09/2008 05:48 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/08/2008 01:48 PM, Francisco Borges wrote:
>>>> » On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:42AM -0500, vafa at aol.com.au wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> If I copy (sudo cp -r dirname) a directory to a root directory (where
>>>>> TeX is installed), then I can not use it in ubuntu 8.10.
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any idea how to resolve this problem?
>>>> 
>>>> You probably have the ownership of the directory set to root, and now
>>>> you can't use it as a regular user.
>>>> 
>>>> Check the directory permissions:
>>>> 
>>>> ls -la /MyDirectory
>>>> 
>>>> to change the ownership of a directory or of files use
>>>> 
>>>> sudo chown -R vafa.vafa /MyDirectory
>>> 
>>> Perhaps you mean:
>>> 
>>> sudo chown -R vafa:vafa /MyDirectory
>>> 
>>> notice the colon between vafa and vafa vs the period.
>> 
>> It's nice that you can do that, but I've always used periods...
> 
> $ man chown

So, fix man.  Far too many scripts still use periods, there appears to be no
intent of ever removing the ability to use periods, and the man page should
match the actual program it documents.
-- 
derek