Permissions
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Thu Oct 12 23:03:45 UTC 2006
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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