public inbox for overseers@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Michael Ring's identity
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200004271722.KAA20967@ferrule.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004271914250.25376-100000@nunki.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

>> chown doesn't like having a "." in the user name.  Lame.

Gerald> Have you tried adding a colon after the user name or
Gerald> specifying both user name and group?

For now I'm leaving the create-user script as-is.
I sent a bug report, and Jim tells me it is fixed in fileutils 4.0q.
So someday it will work on sourceware.

Tom

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Michael Ring's identity
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200004271722.KAA20967@ferrule.cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000427102200.o49AVu5-ZW65Ud9hdfBslCM_1n0AIN3VFE5hUO_Ll94@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004271914250.25376-100000@nunki.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

>> chown doesn't like having a "." in the user name.  Lame.

Gerald> Have you tried adding a colon after the user name or
Gerald> specifying both user name and group?

For now I'm leaving the create-user script as-is.
I sent a bug report, and Jim tells me it is fixed in fileutils 4.0q.
So someday it will work on sourceware.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-30  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-30  6:08 Chris Faylor
2000-04-27  9:22 ` Chris Faylor
2000-12-30  6:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-04-28 10:32   ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30  6:08   ` Tom Tromey
2000-04-28 11:50     ` Tom Tromey
2000-12-30  6:08 ` Tom Tromey
2000-04-27 10:02   ` Tom Tromey
2000-12-30  6:08   ` Chris Faylor
2000-04-27 10:08     ` Chris Faylor
2000-12-30  6:08   ` Gerald Pfeifer
2000-04-27 10:16     ` Gerald Pfeifer
2000-12-30  6:08     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2000-04-27 10:22       ` Tom Tromey
2000-12-30  6:08       ` Andrew Cagney
2000-04-27 18:28         ` Andrew Cagney

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200004271722.KAA20967@ferrule.cygnus.com \
    --to=tromey@cygnus.com \
    --cc=overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com \
    --cc=pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).