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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:18:43 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
To:        Mike Price <bipolor@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need to ( re-chown /etc )
Message-ID:  <10F25C57212680026DE27619@Macintosh-2.local>
In-Reply-To: <a15f9fba0809301857i3f9db5a4y40208a6edb412796@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a15f9fba0809301857i3f9db5a4y40208a6edb412796@mail.gmail.com>

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--On September 30, 2008 6:57:20 PM -0700 Mike Price <bipolor@gmail.com>=20
wrote:

> I needed to edit the /etc/pf.conf so I accidentally typed: chown -r /etc
> Can someone please help me with a command to change /etc back to the way
> it was?

If that is literally the command you typed, you should have gotten an=20
error message, and nothing should have been changed.  Chown requires at=20
least one identifier (uid) before it will work.

Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already
obvious, my opinions are my own
and not those of my employer.
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