Stupid working too late..

Vizion vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Fri Sep 9 08:12:02 PDT 2005


On Thursday 08 September 2005 21:35,  the author Glenn Dawson contributed to 
the dialogue on-
 Re: Stupid working too late..: 

>At 08:58 PM 9/8/2005, Vizion wrote:
>>OK
>>
>>Here is what I did before i packed up - having been working late
>>
>>just changed ownerships of files in a virtual web
>>
>>chown -R www ./*
>>
>>fine
>>
>>folllowed by change of group with the dreaded typo of:
>>
>>chown -R www /*
>>oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops
>>
>>fortunately hit crt c pretty damn quick but some damage was done.
>>
>>While I limited the damage I wanted to double check which of the standard
>> os file hierarchies are meant to be in group "operator" and also owned by
>> root. That seems to be the only   doubt I have the rest was easily
>> recovered.
>>
>>Any help appreciated
>
>mtree -U -f foo
>where foo is the appropriate file(s) from /etc/mtree should do that
>trick for ya.
>
>-Glenn
Thank you so much

good one

david

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