On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:35:58PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kovacs Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.09.1621 +0200]: > > I screwed up file system privileges, issuing a chmod -R in the wrong (/ > > -- where else?) directory :-( Is there a way to fix this? > > yes, if you have a tripwire (or other integrity checker) database > around... otherwise only manually. i always have `ls -lR /` outputs > stored in /root for a couple of weeks for that case... > > but: why not save your /etc, /home, and /var, dpkg --get-selections > into a file, reinstall, and then one after the other restore your > settings? that might be faster...
You can do something like apt-get install --reinstall $(dpgk --get-selections|cut -f1) You may have to grep out some packages that aren't available anymore from your get-selections output, but that should get most stuff. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
