Re: [tlug] Can't Change ownership of symlink

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> I hope this message gets through. I've been having a little trouble
> accessing the mailing list recently. If another message comes through with
> roughly the same issues, then that's me from a different email address.
It got through ok. :)

> So I turned to the command prompt, and listed the contents of /var/www, and
> my "web_sites" symlink is there:
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 2007-06-27 09:41 web_sites ->
> /home/dave/web_sites
Symbolic links behave differently than other files.  Do man 
on chown to see more details.  The safest way to change the 
ownership of that file is to remove the link and re-create 
it as the correct owner.

Steve S.