Re: Recovering from "chown -R" disaster

[nodata <lsof nodata co uk>]

Please start new threads!

Am Donnerstag, den 13.09.2007, 16:34 -0500 schrieb Michael Weber:
> Hey, all!
> 
> I did a bad one.  I was in the wrong directory and did a chown -R oracle: * and munged up my system.  It looks like there was a symlink somewhere back to the root because all of the files and folders, including /, were owned by oracle.

man chown says:
       -P     do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

so I don't think that was the problem.

If your software is installed from rpms, you can query the rpmdb to ge
the owner information out again.

Next time you can use getfacl to backup the info, and setfacl to restore
it.