> From: Rob Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [My client] did a chown -R as root and royally screwed
> up the machine.
It isn't pleasant, but you can do
% rpm -V -a
.
.
.
S.5....T c /etc/printcap
and get a list of all the files that the RPM database thinks
have been modified. The files that have had their mode bits
changes will get a 'M' flag as the second character in the
first field.
So
% rpm -V -a | egrep '^.M'
Should give you a list of everything that has been changed.
You can then try to fix things by hand, or look at another
Cobalt box for the right value. You can also grab most of
our rpms from
ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/products/
Be careful about installing rpms to be sure that you don't
downrev things. Use 'rpm -q -f' to get the rpm version, and
look for that RPM, either in the product directories, or the
updates.
It seems to me that you should be able to get the target
modes from the RPM databases in /var/lib/rpm, but I don't
see an easy way other than hacking up a perl script and
decyphering the rpm record format.
cj*
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