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[cobalt-users] Permissions problems - where is postgressql?
- Subject: [cobalt-users] Permissions problems - where is postgressql?
- From: Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Mar 25 19:00:03 2004
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
I've just typo'd on a live server - big mistake!
I executed the command:
chown -R someuser /*
instead of:
chown -R someuser ./*
Anyway, before I could CTRL-C the command, it was running pretty fast I
guess...
large portions of /home are owned by the wrong user - and now I get an
email here:
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:45:10 -0700
Message-Id: <200403260245.i2Q2jAI27825@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: admin
To: sys
Subject: the PostgreSQL server is not responding
X-UIDL: '"L!!^*("!EA?!!1ld!!
The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted.
Question - where is the postgres sql database, and who should I chown it -
then how do I restart it?
Also - does anyone have a script (shell, perl or otherwise) to rebuild
permissions of anything apart from /home?
tia
Greg