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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:35:36 -0700
To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>
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Subject: Re: Stupid working too late..
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At 08:58 PM 9/8/2005, Vizion wrote:
>OK
>
>Here is what I did before i packed up - having been working late
>
>just changed ownerships of files in a virtual web
>
>chown -R www ./*
>
>fine
>
>folllowed by change of group with the dreaded typo of:
>
>chown -R www /*
>oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops
>
>fortunately hit crt c pretty damn quick but some damage was done.
>
>While I limited the damage I wanted to double check which of the standard os
>file hierarchies are meant to be in group "operator" and also owned by root.
>That seems to be the only   doubt I have the rest was easily recovered.
>
>Any help appreciated

mtree -U -f foo
where foo is the appropriate file(s) from /etc/mtree should do that 
trick for ya.

-Glenn


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