Fedora Users — Permissions

Hi all,

I am new to this group and fairly new to Administering Linux even though Iam a System Administrator for the past 3 years working with Linux. But asyou all know...3 years Linux experience is not always enough! Hehe!

Anyway, I did something realy stupid the other day without realising what Iwas doing. I wanted to change a folders permissions, owner and group withinthe /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 programslike sendmail, clamav spamass-milter, etc does not want to work.

Now, there are alot of domains and email acocunts on the system so I can'treally reload even though I know that is about the only way to do that.

I need urgent help! Please, anyone with any ideas, please, this is yourchance to help someone in desperate need!


Thanks!

Johan