As some of you are aware, I recently transfered my file system from hda1 to hda2. When I did it I used midnight commander.
MC has an option to keep UID's and GID's when copying. Supprise! It only does this on the files. When it created the directories on hda2 it made them ALL root.root using umask. I discovered this when the following error appeared: runq 04/29/1997 08:43:00: mailer error: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied Which made me investigate the permissions. There are two problems I'm addressing here. 1. Is there an easy way to reset the permissions of my directories to what they should be? Such as a program that I can exicute that will set them or go through and prompt me for the changes. 2. The above error is actually related to the file permissions now since I've changed it before. It seems that cron did some kind of clean up this morning and changed the permission back (on the files in this directory) to what they were before. Here is the directory after I changed permissions to add group write permission to stop the error: drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Apr 29 06:43 . drwxrwxr-x 7 root adm 1024 Apr 29 06:44 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 3356 Apr 29 09:07 logfile -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 649572 Apr 29 06:56 logfile.0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 5830 Apr 15 06:44 logfile.1.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 15244 Apr 13 06:44 logfile.2.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 13330 Apr 11 06:44 logfile.3.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 11078 Apr 8 06:43 logfile.4.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 2453 Apr 5 06:43 logfile.5.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 11769 Apr 4 06:43 logfile.6.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 0 Apr 29 06:43 paniclog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 750 Apr 29 06:43 paniclog.0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 15 06:44 paniclog.1.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 13 06:44 paniclog.2.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 11 06:44 paniclog.3.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 8 06:43 paniclog.4.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 5 06:43 paniclog.5.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 4 06:43 paniclog.6.gz Why has this error started since the move from hda1? I have been using the file ownerships to set the directory ownerships since I know that mc kept the file ownerships intact. So now my system is half-hosed. I assume there are other things not working correctly even though I'm not getting any other errors and all seems to be fine, so far. I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a good way to reset my ownerships. About a year ago I remember running across a doc that described the file system structure standards. I don't remember if it gave ownerships but it's worth a shot if someone knows what it's called and where I can find it. I thought it might have been a HOW-TO but I just checked linux.org and found none that looked like they described the file system structure. I see a re-install in my future. Can anybody give me a hand with this so I don't have to resort to the obvious? --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .