Re: files' owner changes on its own

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From: Craig A. Mattocks
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:06

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Hi!
   For those of you suffering from "mysterious drifting directory  
ownership disease" under NS 3.0 (wherein the ownership of files and  
directories changes every few minutes or so and "chown -R owner  
/directory" doesn't work, Mark Adler's posts helped me solve my problem.  
As reported by Mark, you have to change the label of your external hard  
drive to match the hostname. Specifically, if you have a disk named  
"harddisk" in your SCSI daisy chain and your machine's name is "hostname",
do this:

   umount /dev/sd1a
   disk - H hostname /dev/rsd1a
   mount /dev/sd1a /harddisk

then issue all your chown commands. I hope this helps someone and MANY  
THANKS to Mark for being so helpful.

   Craig A. Mattocks, Atmospheric Research Scientist
   RSMAS-MPO, U of Miami
   4600 Rickenbacker Cswy.
   Miami, Florida  33149

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From: mattocks@tigger.rsmas.miami.edu (Craig A. Mattocks)
Subject: Re: files' owner changes on its own
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Keywords: ownership, directory, disk
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