Rick Jones wrote: > 1. Is there an easy way to reset the permissions of my directories to > what they should be? Such as a program that I can exicute that will set > them or go through and prompt me for the changes. I'd suggest using the dpkgcert package by Klee Dienes - it scans all of the files installed by packages and informs you of what files have changed, and what files have different permissions/groups/owners. I found it very useful and informative here. I believe it is currently in experimental. You will also need a database of "package certificates" which contain the checksums. Send e-mail to Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu> to find out where to get these. An alternative is do a "dpkg -c" on the original *.deb files to figure out the permissions. Note that just reinstalling the packages won't work, since dpkg -i doesn't replace old file permissions with the new ones. Cheers, - Jim p.s. I'm going to be out-of-range of the lists and my e-mail for a week -- I have to go to a clients site (a pulp mill in Nanaimo) -- ie. no 'net access -- arrgh
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