* JW (jw@centraltexasit.com) [020117 22:32]:
At 10:16 PM 1/17/2002 -0800, you wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:43:44 -0800 (PST), Steven Marcus
stammered: I made a typo which resulted in chown -R xxx:yyy / No kidding. You've got to be careful on the command line. You did that as root?
A good example of why / should be on a separate filesystem from /var, /home, and /tmp and mounted readonly. If you don't want to do that, at least chattr +i if using ext2 or chmod -w if using reiserfs. Also, having an up to date tripwire database would help here as well.
either look at ownerships in /etc/permissions.* for ownership ideas and set them accordingly, or
Just make sure /etc/rc.config has CHECK_PERMISSIONS="set" and run SuSEconfig; it will set what's in /etc/permissions and /etc/permissions.local. Probably the easiest fix is to just force a reinstallation of all of the installed packages starting with devs and aaa_base. -- -ckm