Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:20 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports? Message-ID: <20130129090819.GA1372@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20130129082806.GA2035@holstein.holy.cow> References: <op.wrms0fqkqhadp0@freebsd> <20130129082806.GA2035@holstein.holy.cow>
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El día Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribió:
> in message <op.wrms0fqkqhadp0@freebsd>,
> wrote Ralf Mardorf thusly...
> >
> > Hi :)
> >
> > I hope it's ok, when I open a new thread for this issue.
> > First I need to know what files have a bad owner.
> >
> > I'm running
> > # freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids
> > perhaps this will give some useful output, regarding to a wrong owner for
> > files from world.
> >
> > It's still running.
> >
> > I still have no idea how to check this for the files build from ports.
>
> If I understand your problem correctly, it is of incorrect owner &
> group. If so, are there any problems with just running "chown -R" on
> the parent directory (say /usr/local, where ports are installed by
> default)?
In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. This
is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. A lot
of files and directories in the systems filesystem, in / /var /usr, have
dedicated owner to allow certain processes which does not run as 'root'
to do their correct work there, for exmample 'mail'; i.e. you can not
do just a complete "chown -R root .... " and expect that the system
still works;
the same is true for the ports below /usr/local; just run on a correct
system something like:
# find /usr/local -exec ls -ld {} \; | fgrep -v root
to get a list about what I am talking.
HIH
matthias
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