[CentOS] chown command goof up
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Tue Feb 13 16:56:42 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of David A. Woyciesjes
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:36 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] chown command goof up
>
> Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Woyciesjes [mailto:david.woyciesjes at yale.edu]
> >>
> >> So if I'm following this right, then I just need to run
> >> rpm --setugids `rpm
> >> -qa` as root, from /, and this should set the owner & groups
> >> on all files, as
> >> appropriate? Except for of course the files in /home?
> >> As for my original plan, I saw krename in yum. At first
> >> glance, that looks
> >> like it should do what I wanted. Anyone have experience with it?
> >
> > Not sure what krename does, but yes an rpm --setugids `rpm
> -qa` and an
> > rpm --setperms `rpm -qa` will reset all file perms and
> ownership for all
> > files managed under RPM.
> >
> > I gave a simple awk command to reset the perms in /home in
> an earlier
> > post, basically using awk to parse the passwd fields and
> then issuing a
> > shell statement with them.
>
> Thanks Ross. I didn't do anything with file permissions
> (that I'm aware
> of), so I shouldn't have to use the --setperms, right?
>
> Just tried rpm --setugids `rpm -qa`, and got "sh: line
> 2: package:
> command not found". Now to figure out where that one comes from...
Make sure popt is installed, which version of CentOS is this?
-Ross
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