Hi all,

 

I know its been answered before so I must be doing something wrong.

 

I've got a directory that is owned by "1000". I think its because I've been mucking around with the users. Anyway, I'm trying to change the ownership back to "nobody" by issuing the following command through telnet as the root user:

 

chown -Rv nobody:users DIE\ ANTWOORD

 

Don't judge me! 

 

It keeps returning "failed to change ownership of `DIE ANTWOORD' to nobody:users".

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks

 

Edit: Im using Unraid 5 rc8 if that makes any difference.

 

chown -R nobody:users /path/to/dir should do it.

Thanks shat

 

I thought I was close but I cannot seem to get it right. Here are the things ive tried

 

^{Linux 3.4.11-unRAID.}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users /music/DIE ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `/music/DIE': No such file or directory}

^{chown: cannot access `ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users /music/DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `/music/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users /Music/DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `/Music/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users /TOWER/Music/DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `/TOWER/Music/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users TOWER/Music/DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `TOWER/Music/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users TOWER/Music/DIE\ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `TOWER/Music/DIEANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users TOWER/Music/DIE ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `TOWER/Music/DIE': No such file or directory}

^{chown: cannot access `ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users /DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users user/DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `user/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users /user/Music/DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `/user/Music/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~# chown -R nobody:users user/Music/DIE\ ANTWOORD}

^{chown: cannot access `user/Music/DIE ANTWOORD': No such file or directory}

^{root@Tower:~#}

 

Any other ideas? There definitely is a folder in my Music share called "DIE ANTWOORD"

You have to escape the folder. Try typing the DIE and pushing tab to autocomplete it.

Ah you are escaping it. Sorry the quotes through me off. Your path will start with /mnt/user/ then rest of the path. Sorry on phone and cant see thread and didnt quote.

At console type: newperms /mnt/user/Music/DIE ANTWOORD

Crap i forgot to escape when i typed that.

 

newperms /mnt/user/Music/DIE ANTWOORD

You Legend!

 

Thanks so much. Its working now.