Johan Boshoff wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to change a folders permissions, owner and
group within the /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 programs like sendmail, clamav spamass-milter, etc
does not want to work.
I believe rpm gives errors when files are the wrong permission, owners
which might help you out with figuring out who needs to own the
files/directory. You might do rpm -qaV and output the results to a test
file so you can deal with the results and change permission/owners.
To me, it sounds pretty hopeless to do this, but it might be possible to
do.
Jim
--
The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared to the power of
the Force.
- Darth Vader
