wrong command

[bruce]

david...

why did he need to reinstall the entire system again?????

he changed the owner of everything to some "user". yep, this will be an
issue to some/alot of things... but depending on the circumstances, he could
over time figure out which apps/files should be "root" and then figure out
the rest later on!!

on the other hand, reinstalling might be easier, if he left the
drive/format/partitions the same.. but it still wouldn't do anything for his
own apps/files that aren't system provided.. this definitely points to a
good backup/restore process though...

god knows i walkt the tightrope line enough, with no backup/restore!!

peace


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Richards
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:34 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: wrong command


As you RHCE'D and you did that! I suggest you reinstall the whole system
again. I personally don't think many people will reply because that is a
really stupid thing to do. Any good sys admin knows never to use root
and this is a good example why. I hope you will learn from your
mistakes!



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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Vivek Mangal
Sent: 26 September 2008 14:20
To: Red Hat
Subject: wrong command

Hello all,

By mistake i run below command on root.
# chown <user> -R /

It changed the ownership of all directories with their respective files
then how i can recover my system from this problem ?
i think i have to change back ownership of all directories manually ?
or their is other way to do this.... ?
please tell me

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