On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 20:18, Richard E. Robbins wrote: > 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. > No. several of the dev entries need to have disk as the group. There are other differences as well. rpm is your friend. you can try rpm -Va and grep for the perms flag and then rpm --setperms package for each package meeting that criteria. most if not all of /dev is in the dev package. rpm -V dev you can reset the owner/group with rpm --setugids dev Bret
