Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-07 Thread Dan
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800 "Joshua Schmidlkofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: > > sudo chown -R lighttpd / > > -- > > You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this > with Gentoo? > > Sincerely, > Joshua I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Cox
I would think a quick fix (by no means a FULL fix) would be to re-emerge sys-apps/baselayout. That should at least get your init scrips, and important configs back to the right permissions. I've never actually tried that however, so take it with a grain of salt. I would agree with most people

RE: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-05 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Joshua Schmidlkofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 January 2007 05:04 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions > > > Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: > > sudo chown -R

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:04 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: > > sudo chown -R lighttpd / *heh heh* apart from saying the mean (but deserved) restore from backup :) maybe you could just `chown -R root /` that would put you in a better state

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-04 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:04 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this > with Gentoo? Well, do you have any backups of the system to work with? Cause if not, your next easiest approach might be to invent a time machine... But serious