On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 09:58, Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 09:25, Jim Knoble wrote: > > > I would rather say here: > > > > chown 0 /var/empty > > chgrp 0 /var/empty > > I recall that numeric arguments to some OS's chown & chgrp fail. Forget that - it was "chown 0.0 foo" that fails -d