Fixing perms

[Andy Pieters]

Hi

You can use the rpm command to let it compile a list of what is wrong with 
your system, provided you installed most of it from rpms.

See http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en for more info.
You might want to skip pages until you come to the relevant page though.


With kind regards


Andy

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 04:04, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     This is why I tell people I know that vacation for me doesn't mean a
> dang thing...it's just another working day for me.  This morning I
> received an e-mail from a client that has his machine co-located with
> me.  It seems over the weekend he screwed with "something" which caused
> several things on the system to quit working.  After hunting for a bit
> (and looking at his .bash_history) I figured that he ran a few 'chown'
> commands in places like /usr/sbin and lord knows where else.  So, now
> I'm trying to figure out if:
>
>     a) I need rebuild his machine from scratch, or
>     b) if there's some way that I can verify binary permissions and what
> not, possibly by running some rpm verify command?  I don't know.
>
>     Part of me wants to simply rebuild the machine, but at the same time
> I don't have time to go through this right now.
>
> --
> R | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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