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From: Tim Fraser <tfraser@cs.umd.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: [9fans] changing file ownership with fossil?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:19:58 -0400
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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