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Got an error as "chown: file : Not owner" while executing 'chown' command

986782Jan 23 2013 — edited Jan 24 2013
Hi There,

Could you please anyone help me out for query.

I got an error as "chown: file : Not owner" while executing the 'chown' command in .ksh script.

the below command i used in .ksh script

chown sr53717 /apps/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/welcome.gz

Note : owner of the /apps/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/ is sr53717
owner of the file(which is placed in /apps/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/ ) welcome.gz is sr54996

and whenever i tried to change the ownership of welcome.gz from sr54996 to sr53717 by using chown. I got the above error.

FYR, i have given the details of my machine below.

SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-62 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

please help me with your valuable answers.

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