Jeff Grossman wrote: > Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a chown on > a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole /var/ > directory to www-data. Of course, right when I hit the enter key > I knew I screwed up. I went and did a chown to root for /var > assuming that was the best bet. Throughout the day reading the > log messages and errors, I think I have fixed almost everything > back to the way it should be or at least to what appears to be > working. But, I just did an aptitude safe-upgrade (this is on a > Lenny system) and got an fopen error. Does this have anything to > do with my /var messup? I looked through the 6 packages that got > upgraded and it does not appear they write anything to the /var > directory. Here is what I got from running the aptitude command: > > root@apple ~ # aptitude safe-upgrade -DV > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done [snip] > Processing triggers for man-db ... /var/man needs to be owned by man (# chown -R man:root /var/man > fopen: Permission denied [snip] > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > On a side note, is there anyway for me to see what all of the > permissions on /var should be? > > Jeff -- jr
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