On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:23:09PM +0000, Jan Warnking wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Stupid me, I inadvertently changed the permissions for all of the device > files on my potato box to 660. How do I get them back to their initial > state? I didn't find any documentation on the default file permissions > for device files... > > For now, I took the permissions from my old SuSE, and things seem to work > reasonably well, but I'm sure this is not the Right Thing to do. > > The easiest way to repair this would be a .deb that installs all of the > device files in a default way. But the output of a "ls -l /dev" on a > (reasonably standard) potato box would help, too. >
I'll send you my 'ls -l /dev' on your mailbox directly ( I guess you'll receive at least 5 of them :-). A nice awk/perl/whatever script from a script guru would be nice, I guess ... but I'm not such a guru. Good luck. ---------- FB
