On 20/12/99 Alberto Bigazzi wrote:
I actually did it "by hand", by tar-ing /var, copying it under /home and
untaring it there. Then deleting /var and symlinking /home/var to /var.
But I guess this is something VERY BAD as I ended up with lots of problems
with PERMISSIONS. Now normal users CANNOT write into directories under
/var, like /var/log or /var/lock, so I get lots of troubles of any
kind...
sounds like you forgot the -p switch to tar, which preserves the
permissions, without it everything gets set according to your
(probably root's) umask, if you have already nuked the real /var then
your in for a bunch of chmoding i suppose.. I am not sure the best
way to find out what the permissions are supposed to be other then
have someone send you a recursive ls -l of their /var hierarchy. I
am not aware of any quick way to restore the permissions to the
proper values other then manually at this point, perhaps someone else
has some ideas?
just a couple i can tell you now, /var/lock is mode 1777, /var/log is
mode 755 (users should not be able to write there), /var/spool/mail
is mode 2775 those are the most important `special' directories i
can think of right now, but there are several daemons with special
directories under /var that have different owners/modes to allow them
to run non-root.
always mv the old directory out of the way and test your change
before rm -rfing it ! :-)
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Ethan Benson
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