--- On Sat, 6/6/09, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's not what I meant. Lock directories are not located > in /etc but in > /var AFAIK, so restoring /etc from backup should be > doable.
Oh, restoring /etc worked - all files were written correctly by rdiff-backup. The problem is the side effects you get in other parts of the filesystem (untouched files, owned by the now-wrong uids). Here's an example of what I mean: $ id -u 1000 $ id -g 1000 $ touch writeable.txt $ logout # vipw # as root, change uid and gid of your user, then login again as user $ id -u 1001 $ id -g 1001 $ echo "cannot append" >> /home/$USER/writeable.txt -bash: writeable.txt: Permission denied Well, no big deal... chown -R fixes such problems quickly, it's just that I can't be sure I found all of them, perhaps I missed something in the logs. That's why I'd like a fully automated, reliable method of reinstalling without human intervention. Or maybe the install scripts for ntp and logcheck are buggy... I'll see that when I reinstall with etckeeper active later today. Thanks, Laurentiu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org