Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I accidentally made all the files on my system owned by > me and am trying to get them back to where they should be. > > Is there any utility that at least gets all the system > files ba

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I accidentally made all the files on my system owned by > me and am trying to get them back to where they should be. I did this about 2-3 weeks ago, although all to root (damned cold). it was only a test machine, just going

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:06:11 -0500 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kemp writes: > > No. The ideal solution is that you restore from your backups... > > Ironically, this all started from an upgrade to increase drive > capacity i

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Steve Kemp writes: > No. The ideal solution is that you restore from your backups... Ironically, this all started from an upgrade to increase drive capacity in order to make daily backups of the entire system. Home is well backed up but the system backups are too old to use. I

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 21:46:53 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any utility that at least gets all the system > files back to proper ownership? No. The ideal solution is that you restore from your backups... > Most everything was owned by root and changing > everything back t