From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 15:12:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5F78B16A41F for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:12:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from lakecmmtao06.coxmail.com (lakecmmtao06.coxmail.com [68.99.120.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B67F43D46 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:12:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dns1 ([64.58.171.82]) by lakecmmtao06.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20050909151201.MYCP24491.lakecmmtao06.coxmail.com@dns1>; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:12:01 -0400 From: Vizion To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:07:44 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200509082058.40370.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20050908213243.03e27c60@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050908213243.03e27c60@cobalt.antimatter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509090807.45065.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: Glenn Dawson Subject: Re: Stupid working too late.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:12:02 -0000 On Thursday 08 September 2005 21:35, the author Glenn Dawson contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Stupid working too late..: >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 Thank you so much good one david -- 40 yrs navigating and computing in blue waters. English Owner & Captain of British Registered 60' bluewater Ketch S/V Taurus. Currently in San Diego, CA. Sailing bound for Europe via Panama Canal after completing engineroom refit.