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

[James P. Kinney III]

This is the time to pull out those excellent backups you've been making.

I don't know of anything that will restore the permissions for an entire
drive. You can do it manually as root. 

At this point, the fastest way to recovery may be to do some data
backups now (/etc, /home, /usr/local, /opt, /var/www, /var/spool/mail,
...) and then a new install followed by a restore of the backups then
manually fix the permissions on the restored stuff.

ouch! That's not as bad as rm. It could be worse. 

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 14:37, Gary MacKay wrote:
> 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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