On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 21:45, James Gregory wrote: > I have spent a non-trivial part of today dealing with a company who has > managed to change the ownership of every file on their webservers > filesystem to a particular user and group combination. I was wondering > if anyone had some quick ideas about how to restore file ownerships for > all the standard stuff on a redhat box? > > My current plan is to run find and get it to tell me the ownership of > every file in a standard install, then run a script to reproduce this on > their server. The big problem with that is that I don't have a redhat > box to start with. >
Flashback to my first days with DC-OSx when I did that very thing on a production Informix server ..... ARRRRGHHHH I'd suggest looking into RPM's documentation. Most package managers set the ownerships on files, so they must be able to list what they should be. -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996
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