On 7/21/21, Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >> frank@fedora ~$ stat / >> File: / >> Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory >> Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 2 Links: 18 >> Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank) >> Context: system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 >> Access: 2021-07-21 10:22:56.572440309 -0400 >> Modify: 2021-06-26 15:48:58.771330459 -0400 >> Change: 2021-06-27 10:10:28.333447227 -0400 >> Birth: 2021-06-11 13:38:48.000000000 -0400 >> >> Looks like owned by root but access by frank ? >> >> Will chown work ? > > Also looks like / is not writeable by root, what have you done to your > system? > > Didn't you have directory permissions problems before? A quick search > throws up https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00059.html
My apologies if my thread trimming glitched any. That thing about "/", were your packages e.g. deb packages or did you untar a package or a few? It's about a bug I tried to submit to Security a couple years ago. I got shut down, kind of a cyber hand thrown up in my face. STILL "not amused". It was about my own "/" multiple times over becoming owned by something else every time I untarred one particular package. The package would reach up two or three or so parent directories to take over the "/" directory. Cindy..... :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
