Translate This Command?

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Monday 20 November 2006 05:50, 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?
> TIA,
> Rachel
>
>
>
It means, depending on what the error is, that you don't have alias.qmail 
in /etc/passwd, or you don't have ~alias/rejoice. That command won't work 
until you correct what's missing.

Don