> > > quite recently I mistakenly did something like chown -R jr / > > > > > If you did really execute above command "chown -R jr /", then ownership > > change happened recursive so that too the owner below those dirs > > changed. You should use "find -uid N" to find out. All /boot content is > > root owned, nearly everything below /etc should so too. > > > > Not everything under /et is root owned. From an "everything" install: Would an upgrade to FedoraCore 4 correct the permissions of those files? Shawn