From: Jim Perrin Sent: September 19, 2006 19:26 > > > I just shot myself in the foot by change the owner/perms on the > > contents of the root directory (my bad!!!). I have done a quick > > compare with a running RHEL3U8 system and think I have every > > thing back to what it should be except for new directories media > > and selinux. Can someone out there currently running 4.3 send me > > an "ls -l" of their root directory so I can make sure I have got > > everything back as it should be? > > > > Alternately is there some command within Linux that will fix these > > up for me (we used to have something like this on SCO OSR5 but I > > have not been able to locate anything for Linux)? > > Assuming you have (or can obtain) a list of packages on the sytem... > > rpm --setperms --setugids <packagename> will restore the package to > the original permissions and ownership. This will still leave a few > files out in teh cold as not everything is owned by an rpm. > Hi Jim: Thanks for that. I will check it out for sure. Right now my only concern is with the contents of the root directory everything else is fine. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com