On 12/04/2011 06:34 PM, dsav...@peaknet.net wrote:
I recently found myself needing to use yum to reinstall all the packages
on my RHEL6.1 server to correct their ownerships inadvertently changed by
a rogue script. Afterwards I noticed that there were still several dozen
packages with the wrong permissions (Modes, according to 'rpm -V'). These
same packages had just been reinstalled by yum.
If yum's reinstall does not restore permissions to their original values,
is that a bug? Or is there another preferred way to do that?
Mr. Savage,
You should be able to recover by following this kbase:
How do I reset the ownership and permissions of files installed by the
Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) under Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-25162
I have done this myself and ended up scripting something up like:
for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setperms $p; done
for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setugids $p; done
And for home directorys..
for u in `ls /home`; do chown -Rh $u.$u /home/$u/; done
I have never done this from yum.
HTHs,
~rp
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