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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Directory/file ownership problem - restore Arch defaults?

A recent screw-up while changing from ext3 to reiser left everything on my system owned by tomk:users. (Clever me - if anyone needs a HOWNOTTO on this, I'll be glad to provide the embarrassing details  :oops: ) Anyway, I chown'ed everything except $HOME to root:root, and it all seems to be running fine. However, I am of course aware that there are various other users and groups on the system, presumably for good reason. Where can I find out what should be owned by these users/groups? I reckon leaving everything root:root is probably not a good idea, right?

bardo

Member

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 96

Re: Directory/file ownership problem - restore Arch defaults?

For a similar problem (I couldn't access some libraries) I decided to reinstall all the software packages on the system and I managed to fix it.

I just issued one command:

for i in `pacman -Q | cut -f1 -d " "` ; do pacman -S --noconfirm "$i" ; done

You can see my thread at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=12568, read it to have some useful advices about doing this

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Directory/file ownership problem - restore Arch defaults?

Thanks bardo (and cactus in the other thread). I ended up using cactus' suggestion, but in three stages, to solve the local package issue. First

pacman -Q | cut -f1 -d " " | tr "n" " " > install.list

then edit my own package names out of install.list, then

pacman -Sy `cat install.list`

Clunkier, certainly, but I felt happier that way - and that's what it's all about, isn't it?