[ Date Index ][
Thread Index ]
[ <= Previous by date /
thread ]
[ Next by date /
thread => ]
I very stupidly managed to do chown user:[username] .* -R earlier as root and managed to change the file permissions of most of my system before i realised exactly what i had done.
Be careful as root. I know someone else that did something similar - didnt remember ".*" includes ". and .." as well! I've had a similar problem on one system - copied a bunch of files to a new HDD and nuked the old one. Unfortunatly everything was set for root ownership :(
Is there an easy way to put this right as i have Win4Lin etc installed and to reinstall from scratch would take an age
Backups? Nah. As far as I know, you up the creek without a paddle then, I'd be pleased to hear otherwise. -- Paul Weaver p.j.weaver@xxxxxxxx Manston Road, Exeter "The best way to accelerate a windows box is at 9.8 meters per second square." -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.