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/ > > which does not make any sense. So I changed them using > > chmod a+rwx /var/tmp /var/lock > > But I don't know what the permissions of other files should be. > > Also, when I log in into KDE as a user, it hangs up at "initializing system > services". This did not happen before. I am thinking this is somehow > related to the permissions of files in /var (since both the problems > occured after the /var transfer). Does anyone know the solution for this?
Maybe you can use rsync -a to restore the permissions? Provided you didn't change anything in the target... -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
