On Friday, November 11, 2011 04:22:52 PM Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > In the process of upgrading from Fedora-15 to Fedora-16, my uid and gid > have both been changed from 500 to 1000. I maintain a "mirror" of my > system as backup using rsync, so in order for the mirroring to continue > properly the uid and gid in the mirror filesystem have to be changed to > match the main one. There's no problem with my home directory, just use > "$ chown --recursive 1000.1000" in the mirror of my home directory. > However there are a few odd files, like my crontab > file /var/spool/cron/jonrysh which needs to have its uid (but NOT its > gid) changed. > > Where is a convenient script to do this? There must be one, since this > is essentially what was done in the upgrade from Fedora-15 to Fedora-15. > > Many Thanks - jon I would suggest find . -uid 500 -exec chown -h owner \; find . -gid 500 -exec chgrp -h group \; The -h option says do the chown or chgrp to the symbolic link instead of following the symbolic link. Without the -h option, the symbolic link is followed, causing the symbolic link ownership to not be changed. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
