Some of them are supposed to go otherwise. Here: root@krypton:/etc# l | grep -v root total 1.7M -rw-r----- 1 smmsp smmsp 12K Nov 14 10:24 aliases.db drwxr-xr-x 5 lp sys 4.0K Nov 11 18:07 cups drwxr-xr-x 2 ntp ntp 4.0K Nov 14 20:24 ntp For the dev folder, you have a big problem unfortunately. Regards, Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard E. Robbins" <RERobbins@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:18 PM Subject: chown mistake I wanted to fuss with the files in the /var/named/chroot tree and inadvertently did a chown named.named for both the /etc and /dev trees instead of the etc and dev trees. Can someone confirm that the files in /dev and /etc trees should (or can) all safely be set to have root and the owner and group? I fear that I have done something horrible to my system. -- Rich -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list