Johan Boshoff wrote:
Thanks Ronald, but I have never used the rpm command before and I do not
know exactly on which folders to apply them. Do I have to do that on the
/var folder? Eg rpm -qa | xargs rpm --setugids /var?
no. just fire the commands without /var or so...
it's a short hand of rpm --setguids for example *sendmail*
rpm --setguids sendmail and
rpm --setperms sendmail sets all rights back to there original.
file- and directory rights, owner- and group memberships, etc.
if you want to do this for all packages installed an the system:
rpm -qa|wc -l gives you the number of installed packages !
hard job !!!
so we let the box do this:
rpm -qa queries all packages installed. this output gets at least piped
to rpm --set....
rpm -qa outputs a bunch of packages, xargs handles this.
in short:
for each installed packages on the system the file/directory
rights/owner/group membership, etc. will be set (back) to the original.
esp. bind and sendmail are two packages life or have parts under /var,
so the command will fulfill your task: get back the correct rights.
maybe there will some files (!) last with your wrong permissions.
so restart the services or better a reboot should correct this part.
files inherits the permissions of there directories when they get
written to this directory. esp. /var/log gets written at boot...
okay ?
--
ronald
teamwork is essential.
it allows to blame someone else...
