On 16-Apr-2000 John Aldrich wrote:
> Well, I'm here to report success on my Dual-PPro system
> with RedHat 6.2. I did a custom text-based install and it's
> now running on BOTH processors w/o kernel recompilation. I
> installed everything but the proverbial kitchen sink.
>
> The ONLY problem I had was with ownership of my home
> directory. For some reason my home directory (and thus
> everything under it, ESPECIALLY the "dot" directories, such
> as ".netscape", .kde, etc) was owned by user "wxyz" when it
> should have been owned by "john."
This has happened to me with SuSE and TurboLinux, the new installation wants
to make its own UID numbers and "wxyz" or "unknown" is a UID that has not yet
been given a number (i.e., the /etc/password and so on was wiped during
installation)
> Oh, well... it took awhile as root to chown every directory
> and every file back to my ownership,
chown has a recusive flag, as root in ~john chown -R john:users would have done
the job. (It took me a while to work this out)
A bit late but I hope it is useful for next time.
Cheers,
Matt
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Date: 17-Apr-2000
Time: 10:04:36
Matt Aylward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depts of Botany and Geography, The University of Western Australia.
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