This one has come up before. I'm pretty sure there isn't I'm afraid.
> > Hi All > > One of my accounts has just had a unix admin tried to run something > like > > chown -R something:something /home/fred/* > > but he had an extra space in there and ran it from the root directory > > chown -R something:something /home/fred/ * > > This has destroyed the ownership of the operating system binaries and > trashed the system. Worse it was done using a distributed tool, so > quite a number of AIX lpars are affected including the TSM server. > > Once we get the TSM Server back up, is there any way to restore just > the file permissions without restoring the data? I can't think of a > way. Maybe there is a testflag to do this? Even a listing of the file > and permissions for all active files would be enough to be able to fix > the problem. > > TSM Server 5.5 AIX 5.3
