Translate This Command?

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Monday 20 November 2006 13:50, Rachel Florentine 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?

I suspect you mean this(from chown manual)
COMPATIBILITY
     Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to
     distinguish the group name.  This has been changed to be a colon (``:'')
     character so that user and group names may contain the dot character.

Nikos