On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:17:38AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:47:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote:
> > > chown root.disk /home/amanda/libexec/runtar
> > 
> > All the chown's I've used require a colon (':'),
> > not a period ('.') between the user and group. 
> 
> It's a BSD-ism that's been inherited into the GNU tools.  POSIX
> technically disallows it because a username is allowed to contain
> dots. 
> 

My bad.  I looked at the docs on two linux systems I have and
saw the ":", no ".", in the synopsis and my eye picked up the 
word colon in the text but overlooked the word "dot".


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