[CentOS] Prepping for system wipe & reload

Tue Feb 13 20:03:42 UTC 2007
David A. Woyciesjes <david.woyciesjes at yale.edu>


Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of David A. Woyciesjes
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:33 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Prepping for system wipe & reload
>>
>> Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
>>>>
>>>> 	Here's the checklist I have so far:
>>>> 1 - /home partition - separate drive
>>>> 2 - Files copied to the second drive:
>>>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>>> rpm for RPM forge
>>>> /etc/yum - entire folder
>>>> /etc/yum/repos.d - entire folder
>>>> /etc/yum.conf
>>>> /etc/yumex.conf
>>>> /etc/yumex.profiles.conf
>>>> 3 - Files installed via Yum(ex) - Hmmm, need to figure this 
>>>> one out. Any 
>>>> pointers?
>>> Sounds like the rpm --setugids didn't work?
>> 	May have, but something is still funky with the user profiles.
> 
> You can fix home directories with this shell command:
> 
>  getent passwd | awk -F: '{system("if [ -d /home/"$1" ]; then chown -R
> "$3":"$4" /home/"$1"; fi")}'
> 
> These ticks are the straight or forward ticks beside the <Enter> key.
> 
> This will set all user home directory ownership back to their own.
> 
> Re-installing will not fix these perms anyways!
> 

	It will if I say screw it and wipe everything! ;-) Well, except for 
bookmarks and mailfiles... There's only a couple of those...

-- 
--- David Woyciesjes