[Gnumed-devel] Problems restoring database on Mac - unsupported 'chown' option -c

[Busser, Jim]

'chown' on Mac does not support -c and therefore line 109 of 
gm-restore_database.sh

        # need to give postgres appropropriate permissions
        chown -c postgres ${BACKUP}-*.sql

fails on Mac, as illustrated by these lines:

        ==> Unpacking backup file ...
         => Extracting (from tarball) ...
        x 
backup-gnumed_v18-GNUmed_Team-MacBook-2.local-2013-08-09-23-01-05-database.sql
        x 
backup-gnumed_v18-GNUmed_Team-MacBook-2.local-2013-08-09-23-01-05-roles.sql
        chown: illegal option -- c
        usage: chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ...
               chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ...

Mind you, since I had run gm-restore_database.sh as root, the working copy of 
the backup file ended up remaining owned by root (whether or not that was 
important to success, I am not sure) and so when the password (for postgres) 
was then four times requested: 

        ==> Checking target database status ...
        Password: 

        ==> Restoring GNUmed roles ...
        Password: 

        ==> Restoring GNUmed database gnumed_v18 ...
        Password: 

        ==> Analyzing database gnumed_v18 ...
        Password: 

I seem to have escaped a problem. However since the working directory will only 
contain 2 files any way, can

        chown -c

be made

        chown -v

??

-- Jim