Re: chown mistake

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 20:18, Richard E. Robbins wrote: 
> I wanted to fuss with the files in the /var/named/chroot tree and
> inadvertently did a chown named.named for both the /etc and /dev trees
> instead of the etc and dev trees.  Can someone confirm that the files in
> /dev and /etc trees should (or can) all safely be set to have root and the
> owner and group?  I fear that I have done something horrible to my system.
> 
No.  several of the dev entries need to have disk as the group. There
are other differences as well.


rpm is your friend.  you can try rpm -Va and grep for the perms flag and
then rpm --setperms package for each package meeting that criteria. 

most if not all of /dev is in the dev package. 

rpm -V dev 
 you can reset the owner/group with rpm --setugids dev

Bret