On 8/3/12, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On Friday, August 03, 2012 06:24:46 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var
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This sort of things pops up from time to time.... from a thread back in April.....
Lesson learnt, never try to fix things I'm not familiar with when feeling pressured by relentless error messages, especially if nobody else is complaining yet.
rpm -qa | while read line; do echo $line && rpm --setperms $line; done
By extension:
rpm -qa | while read line; do echo $line && rpm --setugids $line; done
should handle ownerships. Then, reenable selinux in permissive mode, and set it to relabel on the next boot.
Thanks for this tip, I'll try it and then see if there is anything else in audit log that needs attention.