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Re: lost file ownerships in etc?



On 6/18/14, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately I have so many packages installed, it would be a rather
>> large chroot once done, just to get ownerships back. Theoretically
>> do-able though... thanks.
>>
>> I have been hoping that there was something inside etckeeper that
>> would make this much easier. I'll do some more research.
>
> Had you looked at the /etc/.etckeeper file?  It contains chmod, chown,
> and chgrp lines for the files in /etc.

Superb. When that was previously mentioned, I thought it was a mistake
for ".git". <slaps forehead>

Do I assume "first chown --recursive root.root /etc/" ?

Thank you,
Zenaan


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