[ale] Shoot! I really screwed it up now!

[Matt Smith]

No solution, but I do have an explanation.

It traversed up the tree because .. fits the wildcard .*

Good luck!


--Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary MacKay [mailto:gary at edisoninfo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:38 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Shoot! I really screwed it up now!


How do I fix the permissions on the entire drive? I was in the root 
directory and wanted to change a couple of .xxx files ownership. I 
issued a "chown root:root .*" command and promptly watched it change the 
entire drive. Why did it do that? At the most id should have done /root/ 
and whatever was under it, not the whole frigging drive!

I presume I'm just hosed royally right?

- Gary


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