From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 03:07:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA12223 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 03:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail12.digital.com (mail12.digital.com [192.208.46.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA12192 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 03:06:26 -0700 (PDT) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id GAA01986; Fri, 23 May 1997 06:01:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA06794; Fri, 23 May 1997 12:01:20 +0200 Message-Id: <9705231001.AA06794@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Shawn Ramsey of Wed, 21 May 97 20:13:05 PDT. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Problem! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 May 97 12:01:20 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk shawn@luke.cpl.net writes: > We have a slight problem. Accidentaly, the command chown /*/* (or > something like that) was performed as root. :( /dev, amoung others have > the wrong owner. Do all the /dev files have the same owner? Root? Bin? > What? > > What should most executable files have, such as /bin, and /sbin? Do I need > to reinstall, or can I assign all the system executables root w/o mishap? > just go to /usr/src/and do a "make hierarchy", that should fix the permissions. Most of the files in /dev are root:operator. Exceptions are ttys and ttyps. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org