Re: Need CHOWN Problems solution
John Foster wrote:
>
> What I did was:
>
> "chown -R user:user /"
>
> I meant to put the directory name to change these to; however my finger
> spazzed out and I hit the enter key. The result was that every file and
> directory was affected. I folowed some advises and got most of the
> system restored, however my mail recieving is not working as well as
> several other wierd things.
>
> My question is; If I upgrade to Potato will the system be restored to
> its proper configuration? I have a lot of servers and daemons that are
> no longer working properly especially the databases, even though I
> removed and reinstalled them. Best Guess???
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A follow up question is: Is there a way to use apt or dselect or dpkg to
force a complete reinstallation that will overwrite the incorrect system
ownerships. There are a lot of problems in /dev.
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John Foster
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