On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:29:59 -0400 James Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Jeff Grossman wrote: > > James Richardson wrote: > >> Jeff Grossman wrote: > >> > >>> Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a > >>> chown on a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole > >>> /var/ directory to www-data. Of course, right when I hit the > >>> enter key I knew I screwed up. I went and did a chown to root > >>> for /var assuming that was the best bet. Throughout the day > >>> reading the log messages and errors, I think I have fixed > >>> almost everything back to the way it should be or at least to > >>> what appears to be working. But, I just did an aptitude > >>> safe-upgrade (this is on a Lenny system) and got an fopen > >>> error. Does this have anything to do with my /var messup? I > >>> looked through the 6 packages that got upgraded and it does > >>> not appear they write anything to the /var directory. Here > >>> is what I got from running the aptitude command: > >>> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # aptitude safe-upgrade -DV > >>> Reading package lists... Done > >>> Building dependency tree > >>> Reading state information... Done > >>> Reading extended state information > >>> Initializing package states... Done > >>> Reading task descriptions... Done > >>> > >> [snip] > >> > >>> Processing triggers for man-db ... > >>> > >> /var/man needs to be owned by man (# chown -R man:root /var/man > >> > >> > >>> fopen: Permission denied > >>> > >> [snip] > >> > >>> Any help would be appreciated. > >>> > >>> On a side note, is there anyway for me to see what all of the > >>> permissions on /var should be? > >>> > >>> Jeff > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > I don't have a /var/man directory. > > > I don't either. I should have written /var/cache/man. I really should have > been in bed. ;) /var/cache/man is owned by man:root. Maybe aptitude or the installation took care of it last night when I did the upgrade. I guess I can try doing an install on man-db again to see if I get the error again. Thanks for your help. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
