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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:00:36 -0500
From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Cc: Mike Price <bipolor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Command to rechown
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Mike Price wrote:
> I had to ( chown -R /etc/ ) I to edit the ( pf.conf ), how do I rechowm or
> restore ( /etc ) ?
> 
> Can you please send me the command.

Hmm, why did you have to chown an entire directory to edit
one file?  su(1), and, perhaps even better, sudo(8) are meant
for such things AFAIK.

As for restoring permissions on /etc/, mtree(8) is your 
friend ... I'd recommend taking a look at the
manpage, however, because IANAE.

However, all disclaimers included, I *think* you want

% cd /
% mtree -U -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist


Kevin Kinsey
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