Hi.
Due some accident with a (bad) third-party software-installation
script a Debian-system has suffered a chown -R $foo /
now i'd tried to reconstruct as many rights as possible with a
dpkg --get-selections |grep install |awk '{print $1}' |
xargs apt-get --reinstall install
(ok, that line just to make clear what i mean)
the problem: directories were not changed back to the correct
permissions, caused by the behaviour of GNU tar.
So now: I can break a lot of packages by setting wrong
owners/groups/permissions on directories. Is there a way besides
removing completly and installing again, to re-establish the correct
ownerships? (try that with the base-files-Package)
maybe *.list should contain rights and owner/group-information?
Cord
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