Vince Hoang wrote:
...
Directories do not apply.
...
Good point, I keep forgetting you can't hard link directories (like I ever use
hard links :).
--MonMotha
From what little, I know, I think you did a recursive chmod.
What you did is also dependent on where you were in the directory
structure when you did it.
If you remember the particulars of where you were, I would probably cd
back to that location and do a chmod -R 715 tbu(turn on the execute
TB wrote:
As root I did
chmod -R 704 tbu
Unfortunately, inside the directory tbu there was a
link to /, so it attempted to chmod everything in my
filesystem. Now I cannot log in normally and samba has
stopped working.
Okay, I am not expecting you guys to hand me the
solution, but I really
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 11:17, MonMotha wrote:
Reinstall. Recovering from that kind of mess up is very difficult and will
probably take more time and effor than reinstalling and making everything
work
right again.
root is not to be trifled with...
--MonMotha
I am in agreement. If
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:02:13PM -0700, TB wrote:
As root I did
chmod -R 704 tbu
Unfortunately, inside the directory tbu there was a
link to /, so it attempted to chmod everything in my
filesystem. Now I cannot log in normally and samba has
stopped working.
IIRC, a recursive chmod
Vince Hoang wrote:
IIRC, a recursive chmod should not follow symlinks unless the
chmod calls the symlink directly. Not that this helps your
situation, but more to understand why it happened.
-Vince
Was it maybe a hard link for some reason?
--MonMotha
