Re: Aptitude Install Error
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:29:59 -0400 James Richardson <james@jamesr.biz> wrote
> 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. ;)
/var/cache/man is owned by man:root. Maybe aptitude or the installation took
care of it last night when I did the upgrade. I guess I can try doing an
install on man-db again to see if I get the error again.
Thanks for your help.
Jeff
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