Can some one please tell me how to restore the correct permissions for directories and files in /var? Basically I copied the /var partition of my computer to a spare hard drive, repartitioned the disk and copied the /var partition back. However, during the process, the file permissions were not preserved (as I was not being careful about it). Now every file in /var has permissions like
drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 4096 2008-02-09 17:10 lock/ drwxr-xr-t 6 root root 4096 2008-02-10 03:03 tmp/ which does not make any sense. So I changed them using chmod a+rwx /var/tmp /var/lock But I don't know what the permissions of other files should be. Also, when I log in into KDE as a user, it hangs up at "initializing system services". This did not happen before. I am thinking this is somehow related to the permissions of files in /var (since both the problems occured after the /var transfer). Does anyone know the solution for this? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
