On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:13:51AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Can some one please tell me how to restore the correct permissions for > directories and files in /var? Basically I copied the /var partition of my > computer to a spare hard drive, repartitioned the disk and copied the /var > partition back. However, during the process, the file permissions were not > preserved (as I was not being careful about it). Now every file in /var has > permissions like > > drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 4096 2008-02-09 17:10 lock/ > drwxr-xr-t 6 root root 4096 2008-02-10 03:03 tmp/ [snip] > Does anyone know the solution for this?
Well, that's an oops. I don't suppose you have another box with the same packages installed? This is the problem. I just did an: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ ls -Rl| wc and got 5502 44187 305254 Which means there are 5502 files to which I have access (line count), and if I email it to you, it will be 305254 bytes. I can do it as root and email it to you (after I ensure that there's no security issues in that). However, then you're left fixing 5000 files or so. You'd probably want to write a script. Let me know. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
