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-rw-r--r--src/chown.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index d7f3c982c..9a602d302 100644
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -217,7 +217,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
struct stat ref_stats;
if (stat (reference_file, &ref_stats))
- error (1, errno, _("getting attributes of %s"), quote (reference_file));
+ error (1, errno, _("failed to get attributes of %s"),
+ quote (reference_file));
uid = ref_stats.st_uid;
gid = ref_stats.st_gid;