Jeff Grossman wrote: > James Richardson wrote: >> 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 >>> >> >> >> > I don't have a /var/man directory. > I don't either. I should have written /var/cache/man. I really should have been in bed. ;)
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