On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:44:39 +0100, Andy Pieters wrote: > Hi > > You can use the rpm command to let it compile a list of what is wrong with > your system, provided you installed most of it from rpms. > > See http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en for more info. > You might want to skip pages until you come to the relevant page though. > > > With kind regards > > > Andy > > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 04:04, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >> This is why I tell people I know that vacation for me doesn't mean a >> dang thing...it's just another working day for me. This morning I >> received an e-mail from a client that has his machine co-located with >> me. It seems over the weekend he screwed with "something" which caused >> several things on the system to quit working. After hunting for a bit >> (and looking at his .bash_history) I figured that he ran a few 'chown' >> commands in places like /usr/sbin and lord knows where else. So, now >> I'm trying to figure out if: >> >> a) I need rebuild his machine from scratch, or >> b) if there's some way that I can verify binary permissions and what >> not, possibly by running some rpm verify command? I don't know. >> >> Part of me wants to simply rebuild the machine, but at the same time >> I don't have time to go through this right now. >> >> -- >> R | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. >> +-------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> . 303.442.6410 x130 >> IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 >> Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 >> http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > -- > Now listening to Top! Radio Live www.topradio.be/stream on amaroK > Geek code: www.vlaamse-kern.com/geek > Registered Linux User No 379093 > If life was for sale, what would be its price? > www.vlaamse-kern.com/sas/ for free php utilities > -- rpm --setperms package Do it in a for loop like so: for package in `rpm -qa` do rpm --setperms $package done
