From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] changing file ownership with fossil?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:24:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <088fc247f7aef86fe0e0e5fe1b5c5f06@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031014001957.GA4833@nerds.cs.umd.edu>
An oversight. I've tried to fix it (untested) and correct the man page.
New source and man page on sources.
On Mon Oct 13 20:21:50 EDT 2003, tfraser@cs.umd.edu wrote:
> Another newbie question for you all: how does one ask fossil to serve
> a filesystem in a mode that allows one to change file ownerships? The
> fossil(8) man page suggests that one might:
>
> term% con /srv/fscons
> prompt: fsys main
> main: srv -APW admin
>
> where the -W flag is supposed to allow ownership changes. However, at
> least with my version of the software, the -W flag is not a valid
> option when entered as I have shown above. Where have I gone wrong?
>
> Some details:
>
> I originally installed from a CD-ROM downloaded 29 Sept 2003, and last
> ran replica/pull over the network on 12 October 2003. The pull warned
> me that it left many files owned by glenda, and I was subsequently
> unable to chgrp -o them to sys.
>
> Thanks to David Presotto for introducing me to /srv/fscons. Further
> thanks to mirtchov for showing how to modify /dist/replica/network for
> use with fossil.
>
> Tim Fraser / U. Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-14 0:19 Tim Fraser
2003-10-14 2:24 ` jmk [this message]
2003-10-15 2:36 ` Tim Fraser
2003-10-15 3:09 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-15 5:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-15 14:25 ` Russ Cox
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