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... -- --- David Woyciesjes