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

["Chris Moreton" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much to everyone who helped with this.  Everything is back to
normal - at least functionally.

The weirdest thing I haven't yet figured is that in order to get the MySql
daemon to start on reboot I needed to replace the lengthy mysql script in
/etc/rc.d/init.d to read simply "safe_mysqld &".  This works fine and from
the looks of things the mysql script is a copy of the mysql.server script
that comes with the mysql download.

Of course, this doesn't bother me at all.  I am just so relieved to be back
to normal behaviour!!  And, as a bonus, I've learned a whole bunch about
Linux in the last week.

Thanks again,
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Moreton" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] I'm an idiot - please help me


> Hi,
>
> I'm afraid I have done something amazingly bad.  I have executed the
command chown -R 755 * as root as part of a cron script I was writing,
thereby causing the owner of almost everything to become "755".
>
> I believe this is why I am getting the problems listed below.  Can anyone
tell me where I can find out which owners I need to reset to sort this out?
Is there any script I can run to sort this out?
>
> The web interface says that there are no virtual sites created although
the
> sites and users still exist and I can still log on to my pop server.
>
> I am unable to send email to my regular
> address chris@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Server Side Includes have stopped working.
>
> The System Status items on the main web interface are grey, saying that
> they have not gathered information/
>
> Following a reboot, I needed to start the MySql daemon manually.
>
> Thanks for your help
> Chris
>
>
>
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