Translate This Command?

[Jahilliya]

On 11/20/06, Rachel Florentine <rachel_florentine at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi;
> I'm reading a how-to and it tells me to issue this command:
>
> chown -R alias.qmail ~alias/rejoice
>
> But that errors. What's the BSD translation?
> TIA,
> Rachel
>
I'm guessing it's error is something about invalid user/group...

Try using a colon instead of a ., so alias.qmail becomes alias:qmail