Re: [Gnumed-devel] Problems dumping database (Mac limitation on su -c)

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-05-27, at 12:05 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> So that's fine, there is a group "djb".

In spite of which the Mac still did not like

        "$USER:$USER"

complaining about an invalid argument, and yet using just

        "$USER"

results in auto assignment of owner and group

        djb     djb

or (if via sudo or as root)

        root     admin

By comparison, using chown directly in the command line,

        chown djb:djb foo.tar

works and so does

        chown root:admin foo.tar

so evidently Mac has some problem processing the python "$USER:$USER"

??

-- Jim