El día Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribió: > in message <op.wrms0fqkqhadp0@freebsd>, > wrote Ralf Mardorf thusly... > > > > Hi :) > > > > I hope it's ok, when I open a new thread for this issue. > > First I need to know what files have a bad owner. > > > > I'm running > > # freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids > > perhaps this will give some useful output, regarding to a wrong owner for > > files from world. > > > > It's still running. > > > > I still have no idea how to check this for the files build from ports. > > If I understand your problem correctly, it is of incorrect owner & > group. If so, are there any problems with just running "chown -R" on > the parent directory (say /usr/local, where ports are installed by > default)?
In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. A lot of files and directories in the systems filesystem, in / /var /usr, have dedicated owner to allow certain processes which does not run as 'root' to do their correct work there, for exmample 'mail'; i.e. you can not do just a complete "chown -R root .... " and expect that the system still works; the same is true for the ports below /usr/local; just run on a correct system something like: # find /usr/local -exec ls -ld {} \; | fgrep -v root to get a list about what I am talking. HIH matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"