Re: Problem with ubuntu 8.04

[Eric Blake]

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[please don't top-post, and re-adding the list]

According to Oreste Ferrari on 10/17/2008 8:27 PM:

>     After recent Ubuntu releases there have been several people who have
>     been asking about Ubuntu questions on this GNU Coreutils mailing
>     list.  If you would be so kind could you tell us what has directed you
>     to ask your question on this mailing list?  We fear that there may be
>     incorrect documentation pointing you here.  If you would help us so
>     that we could improve the directions it would help others.  Thanks!

> Thank you for your answer and sorry for the mistake.
> I was trying some command from the command line in order to fix my
> problem, and when the command didn't work (sudo chown) the help of the
> command suggested your e-mail.
> I now solved the problem anyway

Thanks for the hint on why you contacted us.  sudo is not one of the
coreutils, and coreutils' copy of su is generally unused these days; but
chown is indeed one of the commands.  But I'm not sure what we could add
to the chown --help output to prevent others from making the same mistake
of contacting coreutils when a chown of an unrelated project failed.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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