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On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:24 -0500, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> You can use mtree against the spec files in /etc/mtree/ to check for and
> fix incorrect permissions and owners on base system files. It won't help
> with /usr/local, but at least you can get the base straight.
> 
> As root, from the root directory, something like this:
> mtree -U -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist
> 
> There are other spec files in that directory. Poke around. 

So mtree can't fix /usr/local and poking around without knowledge is
asking for trouble :(.

/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist is for the whole base?