On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:45:30AM +0100, Oliver Schneider wrote: > is there any way in Debian (4.0 or 5.0) to restore the file > permissions - mainly of files inside /etc/ - from the cached packages > or the package database or so? > > The only other chance I see - without reinstalling - would be to > install all those packages into a dummy installation (e.g. in a VM) > and use that as a template for the existing installation. Is there a > better method?
I've never had to do it for all of /etc. Some packages come with /etc files in the deb, others create the /etc files in their install script. To use the packages, you'd have to look in the deb for the files or in their scripts. To look into debs, I use midnight commander. You could alwasy ask someone to give you an ls -alR /etc. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
