On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:40:05PM +0200, Martin Thoma wrote: > I just made a big mistake. I wanted to change to ownership of a > directory and its subdirectories. I was to fast and typed a wrong > regular expression so, that I changed the ownership of the files in the > hole dir tree. Is there a way, to made that changes undo? I hope so, If > not, what is the best to do now? Comment 1: You can't undo. The change has been made permanent and now you're up to try and fix what you've done. How to proceed depends on what you corrupted. If it's /home, your fastest method would be to write a script that looks up the username in the passwd file and sets the ownership down from there. If you can't guess who the original owners should have been and you really corrupted everything from / down, you're unfortunately better off restoring from your backups. Make another backup first, restore the system, and then do an incremental comparison to see what needs to be restored, remembering of course that you don't want to restore the corrupted ownerships. It's going to be ugly. If you have no backups, you're going to have a really bad weekend. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
