Need to ( re-chown /etc )

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Wed Oct 1 02:18:46 UTC 2008


--On September 30, 2008 6:57:20 PM -0700 Mike Price <bipolor at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I needed to edit the /etc/pf.conf so I accidentally typed: chown -r /etc
> Can someone please help me with a command to change /etc back to the way
> it was?

If that is literally the command you typed, you should have gotten an 
error message, and nothing should have been changed.  Chown requires at 
least one identifier (uid) before it will work.

Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already
obvious, my opinions are my own
and not those of my employer.
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