On 08/03/07, David G. Miller <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you scatter files elsewhere (e.g., /tmp, /var/spool/mail, ...) you may want to fire off something like: find / -uid=700 -exec chown UserName {} \; -print and find / -gid=700 -exec chgrp UserGroup {} \; -print Just to find all the files you didn't know were out there that also need to have their UID and GID fixed. -R is great for blasting everything but things like mail files are owned by the user but with mail as the group and you only want to change the file that's owned by the specific user. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce
Thanks for the tip, Dave. I only save the /home partition when distro-hopping, and even then I erase all the hidden files (as those are mostly config files). I only back up critical things like ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and the like. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/1/allman_brothers_band.html http://what-is-what.com/what_is/email.html