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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mv filename: set owner/group: Operation not permitted
Date: 24 Mar 1997 17:46:20 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.970323163337.10686A-100000@typhoon.typhoon.co.jp>,
N Fung <nfung@typhoon.co.jp> writes:
> Hi!
>
> I'm running 2.1.7 RELEASE#0 on a P166 machine.
>
> Whenever I 'mv' a file from one file system to another, I get this
> error/warning message:
>
> mv: /target/filesystem/filename: set owner/group: Operation not permitted
>
> The file is moved successfully though. mv'ing files within the same file
> system doesn't producing any such message.
>
> The mv man page mentioned that "As the rename(2) call does not work
> across file systemf, mv uses cp(1) and rm(1) to accomplish the move...
>
> Is there anything I can do to avoid the said error/warning message?
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Regards,
> N. Fung
>
That's because the mv(1) command can't chown(2) the file to someone
else. There's no warning if you mv your own files.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !