On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 12:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:33:27AM +0800, Spades wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What if one of my admin accidentally did a: > > > > chmod -R o+rx / > > > > and changed my entire system permissions. > > What should i do to restore it? > > > > Please assist. Thanks. > > Several choices: > [... snip ...]
> ii) Do a restore from your latest backups. Working out how to merge > any changes to file contents without modifying the file permissions is > left as an exercise for the Or you could write a script to pull only the permissions from backup, and change just the permissions of the files. -- greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
