From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 0:26:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB27214ED6 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11ivju-0004qM-00; Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:25:54 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Correct owner/perms for man directories? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:23:54 +0200." <18570.941617434@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:25:54 +0200 Message-ID: <18621.941617554@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:23:54 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Now you know how to find out for yourself in future. The short answer, > which you'll see for yourself, is that the cat directories are owned by > man:wheel and all the other directories by root:wheel. They're all mode > 0755. Bleh, I sent too quickly. The rest of the answer is that you can easily restore the permissions and ownerships of the entire /usr hierarchy to their original values with this command: mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message