hi
yep that was the problem.. i had a symlnk in the dir pointing to /
probly not a good idea but anyway i seemed to have chowned everything.. so
i just wrapped up my home etc onto a partition then reinstalled the rest
w/o a problem ;-(
btw what is the general procedure w/ this i mean it must happen somtimes
or is a reinstall the only way
thanks anyways
alex
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Angus Lees wrote:
> \begin{James Wilkinson}
> > What is on this /ghoti directory? Sounds like you've made a typo and
> > chown'd your whole filesystem to be owned by salmona. Hence all your
> > suid programs are now running suid salmona, not suid root.
>
> or rather, they are now owned by salmona and no longer suid.
>
> chown tends to unset suidness, iirc.
>
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