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Re: I broke X when moving /home




On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Juergen Nagler wrote:

> >the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r 
> >/tmp/home/* /home)
> 
> You've got forgotten the -p flag (preserve) to duplicate owner, group
> and permissons, too.
> 
> Just an idea.
> 
> Juergen
> 

Nope; didn't forget it; just too new to linux/unix to know about it.

That was the problem though. I chowned everything back to me (as westk) 
and that solved my problem. Thanks!


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