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[certify]

Anybody knows how to get this fix?

-rw-r--r-- 1 certifye psacln 1744 Feb 6 01:43 error500.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 certifyd psacln 1604 Feb 6 01:43 error404.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 certifyd psacln 1385 Feb 6 01:43 error403.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 certifyd psacln 1531 Feb 6 01:43 error401.php
[root@cheng errors]# chown certifyd:psacln error500.php
chown: certifyd:psacln: invalid user

[bitserve]

It look like that file is already owned by that user, so don't know why you're trying to change it.

But some OS's (actually some versions of chown) don't support specifying the group with the chown command.

You might just try a chown and then a chgrp.

[priyadi]

... or use . (dot) instead of : (colon) as the separator.

[zupanm]

ya use a . instead of a : your version of chown probably uses a . as a seperator. Its thinking that certifyd:psacln is the user you are trying to change it to and not user=certifyd group=psacln