Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-07 Thread Dan
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800 Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / -- You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Sincerely, Joshua I think a better fix

RE: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-05 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Joshua Schmidlkofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 January 2007 05:04 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Cox
I would think a quick fix (by no means a FULL fix) would be to re-emerge sys-apps/baselayout. That should at least get your init scrips, and important configs back to the right permissions. I've never actually tried that however, so take it with a grain of salt. I would agree with most

[gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-04 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / -- You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Sincerely, Joshua -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-04 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:04 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Well, do you have any backups of the system to work with? Cause if not, your next easiest approach might be to invent a time machine... But

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:04 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / *heh heh* apart from saying the mean (but deserved) restore from backup :) maybe you could just `chown -R root /` that would put you in a better state