Please help,,,execute chmod –R o-r / by mistake as a root user.

"T" <fire_fly@pacific.net.sg> schreef in bericht
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> Hi
> I executed chmod -R o-r / by mistake as a root user.
> Are there any script to restore to those affected files to their
> default permission ?
> Please help,
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> T

Where does the capital -R stand for?

Hi
I executed chmod -R o-r / by mistake as a root user.
Are there any script to restore to those affected files to their
default permission ?
Please help,

Many thanks in advance.
T

T wrote:

> Hi
> I executed chmod -R o-r / by mistake as a root user.
> Are there any script to restore to those affected files to their
> default permission ?
> Please help,
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> T

uh, "chmod -r o+r /" ?


--
Early to bed and early to rise and you'll be groggy when everyone else is
wide awake.

I did it a year or so ago :)
and people on the linux group had a good laugh :)
"do not act as root in vain :)" they told me :)

Got no other choice than reinstall the OS.

Save the home dir and etc/*.conf, database files before (that is whole
backup), and reinstall...

by the way : thank you, I feel less lonely now in my blunder :)

Cheers and good luck !

PS : look for archives in Google but as far as I know, no hope (if you
find something though, post it, It might be useful :)

charly <spam@yahoo.fr> writes without citation:

> I did it a year or so ago :)

Congratulations

> and people on the linux group had a good laugh :)

I'm sure we would ;)

> "do not act as root in vain :)" they told me :)

Oh, that's what you were talking about...

> Got no other choice than reinstall the OS.

Nah, thass' balls.

Should be easy to find a list of all packages you had installed (`rpm -qa'
or `dpkg --list-packages' or `epm -qa' or whatever takes your fancy), find
the original RPMs/debs/whatevers for them on your install CDs or elsewhere
on the 'Net, and reinstall them on top of themselves. Only thing I'd
suggest is you back up /etc before doing so, in case a config-file manages
to get overridden.

~Tim
--
There's a shrine on the Assynt hillside |piglet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk
Made of earth and salt and rain |http://spodzone.org.uk/

T wrote:
> Hi
> I executed chmod -R o-r / by mistake as a root user.
> Are there any script to restore to those affected files to their
> default permission ?
> Please help,
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> T

what are you complaining about? This weekend I executed in a script I
was working on

rm -rf $xyz/*

and the script was bad so $xyz was undefined...

T wrote:
> Hi
> I executed chmod -R o-r / by mistake as a root user.
> Are there any script to restore to those affected files to their
> default permission ?

No.

You just learned two valuable lessons. Never play around
while logged in as root and don't use the recursive flag
unless you really know what you are doing.

--
Kevin D. Snodgrass
Help our soldiers in the field:
http://www.operationac.org/
Help our soldiers in the hospital:
http://www.woundedwarriorhospitalfund.org/

"Kevin D. Snodgrass" <nobody@spamcop.net> writes:

> T wrote:
>
>> I executed chmod -R o-r / by mistake as a root user. Are there any
>> script to restore to those affected files to their
>> default permission ?
>
> No.

Actually, there might well be, either on Mandrake (possibly) or SuSE (very
likely). I know both have various levels of BOFHism for messing around with
file-permissions, so if you find the scripts that kick these things off and
run them, you might be a lot closer to having something working.

> You just learned two valuable lessons. Never play around while logged in
> as root and don't use the recursive flag unless you really know what you
> are doing.

~Tim
--
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with their secret weapon. |http://spodzone.org.uk/cesspit/

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:50:57 +0000, Tim Haynes wrote:
>
> Should be easy to find a list of all packages you had installed (`rpm -qa'
> or `dpkg --list-packages' or `epm -qa' or whatever takes your fancy), find
> the original RPMs/debs/whatevers for them on your install CDs or elsewhere
> on the 'Net, and reinstall them on top of themselves. Only thing I'd
> suggest is you back up /etc before doing so, in case a config-file manages
> to get overridden.

rpm --setperms -a

--
Matt Gauthier <elleron @ attbi.com>

Matt Gauthier <elleron@yahoo.com> writes:

> rpm --setperms -a

Wahey, another thing learnt. Ta :)

~Tim
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In miracles much more than I can say |http://spodzone.org.uk/