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You should be able to revert the ownerships back as well as examine the
box for problems.

> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:08:16 -0400
> From: "C. Lee Davis" <lists at geographic.net>
> Subject: [ale] Cannot chown unowned files
> To: ale at ale.org
> Message-ID: <430C9B70.8040408 at geographic.net>
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> 
> I've got an odd situation.  Some of my files have changed ownership to
> an unknown user & group...
> 
>   -rwxr-xr-x   1 122      114         39696 May  2 16:17 ls
>   -rwxr-xr-x   1 122      114         54152 May  2 15:54 netstat
>   -rwxr-xr-x   1 122      114         62920 May  2 12:39 ps
> 
> There is no user 122 or group 114 on my system.  And I can't chown them
> back, even as root.
> 
>   host bin # chown root ls
>   chown: changing ownership of `ls': Operation not permitted
> 
> Anybody got any suggestions?
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