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I'm afraid you put too much effort into that one, I can't decipher it. I know what the linux command would do, I'm pretty sure that "cow orker" isn't a typo, and fairly confident that "chow" has something to do with the whole thing, and suspect that -R might stand for remuneration in this case. But either my linux-fu, my english, or my knowledge about cows aren't good enough to establish a meaningful connection between these things...
Let me guess:
chown : Change file ownership
-R = recursive
/var is usually for logs, print spools and databases.
changing the ownership of files there can mean that many processes stop to work, because they loose the access rights to their own files.