From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 13:36:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7B116A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:36:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gizm0.org (gizm0.org [212.114.209.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4219443D5C for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:36:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gizm0.org) Received: from [10.0.0.122] (unknown [10.0.0.122]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gizm0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2770A10197 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:36:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <428B44E9.5080701@gizm0.org> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:36:41 +0200 From: Steven Enderle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050203 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Urgent!Chmod -R 660 * under /,and can not start system anymore... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:36:24 -0000 This is why all unix books state, you shall not work as root ;) You can recover your system, by following system rescue manual available on the net and boot via cd in to recover shell mode, mounting your disks, and running mtree with the data files in /etc/mtree over your system. Read the manpage to mtree on freebsd.org before Good luck Steven -- ++ message delivered by gizm0.org ++ free webmail - imap, pop3, ssl secured Sun Le wrote: >Hi,guys > >I did some really stupid operations and met some problems need to >solve right now. > >I changed the mode of all my directories under `/' to 660,and now I >can not launch the system anymore.....How can I solve the stupid >problem? It is urgent! > >Anyway....I will very much appreciate any suggestion and >solutions....Thanks very much in advance ! > >Regards > >Sun .L >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >