Re: File permissions for /dev/*
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:23:09PM +0000, Jan Warnking wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Stupid me, I inadvertently changed the permissions for all of the device
> files on my potato box to 660. How do I get them back to their initial
> state? I didn't find any documentation on the default file permissions
> for device files...
>
> For now, I took the permissions from my old SuSE, and things seem to work
> reasonably well, but I'm sure this is not the Right Thing to do.
>
> The easiest way to repair this would be a .deb that installs all of the
> device files in a default way. But the output of a "ls -l /dev" on a
> (reasonably standard) potato box would help, too.
>
I'll send you my 'ls -l /dev' on your mailbox directly ( I guess you'll
receive at least 5 of them :-).
A nice awk/perl/whatever script from a script guru would be nice, I guess
... but I'm not such a guru.
Good luck.
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FB
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