On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:47:03PM -1000, Blake Vance wrote: > Seems my ~9a reply never made it. Yes, that is the situation. > There is a case in the archives where someone used a recursive > chmod as root, which due to the circumstances, necessitated a > reinstall. I was also thinking of doing a chmod -R but would > sure like to avoid that scenario.
There was more than a simple chmod going on in that thread. Just chmod from the right directory and you should be safe. Chmod does not follow symlinks by default. -Vince
