Re: [cobalt-users] I'm an idiot - please help me

["Chris Moreton" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, the command was "chown -R 755 *" which set the user of a large number
of files (although not all - not sure why) to be "755" which is a user that
doesn't exist.  It's a Raq3 and I've installed all the pkg patches from the
cobalt site that it'll take.  I had just about enough knowledge to write a
script that set all these 755 files to the admin user which solved some
problems. (I had to do "find . -nouser > out" and then used Perl to create
new chown commands from the out file... I'm sure there must be an easier way
but my Linux knowledge is poor).

Things are getting back to normal... my biggest problem at the moment is
that I get the message:

procmail: Quota exceeded while writing "/var/spool/mail/username"

When sending email to domains on the Raq3... so I'm trying to find which
permissions have screwed this up... then I can breath again and start to
worry about fixing the GUI which won't display a list of sites!

Also, I don't understand why "chown 755 filename" is allowed by Linux but
"chown asd filename" is disallowed (assuming 755 and asd are both invalid
users).

Thanks
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodolfo Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:37 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] I'm an idiot - please help me


> > chown -R 755 * as root
>
> Does chown do this? Or did you mean chmod? This isn't clear; what
> exactly happened?
>
> a) everything now belongs to root with its old permissions
> b) everything still belongs to the right owner but is 755
> c) everything now belongs to root *and* is 755
>
> Also, where exactly were you when you did this? What server are you
> running? What patches are installed? How many times did they hit you on
> the head? (Just kidding.)
>
> --
> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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