> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:50 AM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: chown command goof up
>
> David A. Woyciesjes spake the following on 2/13/2007 5:36 AM:
> > Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: David Woyciesjes
> >>> [mailto:david.woyciesjes@xxxxxxxx]
> >>> So if I'm following this right, then I just need to run rpm
> >>> --setugids `rpm
> >>> -qa` as root, from /, and this should set the owner &
> groups on all
> >>> files, as
> >>> appropriate? Except for of course the files in /home?
> >>> As for my original plan, I saw krename in yum. At
> first glance,
> >>> that looks
> >>> like it should do what I wanted. Anyone have experience with it?
> >>
> >> Not sure what krename does, but yes an rpm --setugids `rpm
> -qa` and an
> >> rpm --setperms `rpm -qa` will reset all file perms and
> ownership for all
> >> files managed under RPM.
> >>
> >> I gave a simple awk command to reset the perms in /home in
> an earlier
> >> post, basically using awk to parse the passwd fields and
> then issuing a
> >> shell statement with them.
> >
> > Thanks Ross. I didn't do anything with file permissions
> (that I'm
> > aware of), so I shouldn't have to use the --setperms, right?
> >
> > Just tried rpm --setugids `rpm -qa`, and got "sh: line
> 2: package:
> > command not found". Now to figure out where that one comes from...
> >
> Check your quotes. That just might be rpm --setugids `rpm -qa'
Quotes are correct I think he has popt uninstalled and so it is barfing
on the alias command.
-Ross
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