Rubenerd

I’ve decided to start a new post series: Ruben relearns obvious *nix things. Today, we try changing the owner of a symlink, fail, then realise we forgot to use the “-h” flag.

Trying to change the owner of a symlink this way doesn’t work:

# chown userX:groupX link

Now we use the -h flag:

# chown -h userX:groupX link

Now when we list:

# [permissions] userX userY [date] link

This works on FreeBSD and GNU. Thank you for your time.