From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H3fMz-0001xy-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:15:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l07LBuBP026413; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:11:56 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx (c-66-41-120-249.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [66.41.120.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l07L9qPH004646 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:09:52 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EBA6774 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:09:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:09:50 -0600 From: Dan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions Message-ID: <20070107150950.3c32e466@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Spore X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 596e5d7e-1e76-49c4-b1f3-fa5cfd50d94d X-Archives-Hash: c4a9fcea1a359a8ed1e3d2fa05ef797a On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800 "Joshua Schmidlkofer" wrote: > Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: > > sudo chown -R lighttpd / > > -- > > You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this > with Gentoo? > > Sincerely, > Joshua I think a better fix might be to use a similar gentoo system to 'collect' the permissions on its files and things and then use that data to restore the permissions on the borked computer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list