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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