Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org >> >> 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? CentOS 4. Not finding it in Yumex... -- --- David Woyciesjes