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 ... This sort of things pops up from time to time.... from a thread back in April..... On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 05:38:13 PM Jason Pyeron wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz > > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 17:12 > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to fix a chown oops... > > > > Am 11.04.2012 23:02, schrieb Jason Pyeron: > > > chown -R 7.0 /sbin/ > > > chown -R 98.98 // > > > > > > Is there a rpm way fix all the permissions of files managed by rpms? > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM#head-20a3ecce3d > > 0762b9cdd3307ef2632e0c274a2bfd > > 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.