How can I change the onwership of a complete directory .... I have tried!

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:37:47AM -0700, Michael Fakaro took 44 lines to write:
> I just updated to Sus 10.1 and had backed up my .evolution directory onto cd
> 
> I attempted to copy it back using my user account and it would not copy so I 
> tried it as SU and it worked fine
> 
> Then I tried to run Evolution and what a mess it said the permissions were all 
> wrong
> 
> So I attempted to go into SU and change the properties and it wouldn't let me 
> in the gui so I went to the command line using
> 
> example:
> 
> chown mike .evolution

chown -R mike .evolution

> chgrp users .evolution

chgrp -R users .evolution

Manual pages are you friend.

Kurt
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