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From: rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Robert Regn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Compress, Elle, Chown problems
Message-ID: <842@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 15 Feb 89 09:18:08 GMT
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From article <813@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, by michaelb@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Michael L Bloxham):
					(Could not reach michaelb via mail)
 
> A few questions:
> 
>     1.) Has anyone compiled compress.c in MINIX and gotten it to
> 	take a chmem =64000 compress ?? I can't, even though changemem
> 	specifies this.
> 
Don't forget to use the -i flag for asld or cc!

>     3.) Why can I not chown anything to root? I am logged in as root.
> 	nothing in /usr/bin can I get to root ownership unless I copy
> 	it out to /, delete it in /usr/bin, and copy it back in.
> 	Did this for login, su, df, etc.
> 

This is very peculiar. Whats the error message of chown ?
Can you use chown on files in / ?

Robert Regn
rtregn@faui32.uucp
rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de