Permissions

[Jim Cornette]

Johan Boshoff wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I wanted to change a folders permissions, owner and 
> group within the /var folder and by accident (not concentrating...) I 
> changed the whole /var folder's permissions to 0777 and the owner as 
> root and the group root. And I did it recursively!  Now everything is a 
> mess and some of my programs like sendmail, clamav spamass-milter, etc 
> does not want to work.

I believe rpm gives errors when files are the wrong permission, owners 
which might help you out with figuring out who needs to own the 
files/directory. You might do rpm -qaV and output the results to a test 
file so you can deal with the results and change permission/owners.

To me, it sounds pretty hopeless to do this, but it might be possible to 
do.

Jim

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