Re: [CentOS] chown command goof up

On Monday 12 February 2007 21:34, David A. Woyciesjes wrote: ...

So, how can I fix this? In MacOSX, there is a utility to fix all permissions on the system. Is there a similar item in CentOS?

The rpm-databse contains all you need to know (almost, it wont cover files not owned by any package). "rpm -V PKG" will tell you if that package has files that have been modified since install, including uid:gid). The information can be obtained (dumped) with something like: # rpm --dump -ql PKG which would give you a list of all files in PKG and (among other things) their original uid:gid.

I know of no automated way of restoring this so implementing x (rpm --dump -qal | x ) is left as an exercise ;-)

/Peter