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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: Problem!
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 14:37:21 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: shawn@luke.cpl.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970521200932.975A-100000@luke.cpl.net> from Shawn Ramsey at "May 21, 97 08:13:05 pm"
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> We have a slight problem. Accidentaly, the command chown /*/* (or
> something like that) was performed as root. :( /dev, amoung others have
> the wrong owner. Do all the /dev files have the same owner? Root? Bin?
> What? 
> 
> What should most executable files have, such as /bin, and /sbin? Do I need
> to reinstall, or can I assign all the system executables root w/o mishap?

Try mtree(8), with the files in /etc/mtree.

Something like
mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -U -p /
mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -U -p /usr
mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -U -p /var
mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist -U -p /usr/local
...

Bye, Gabor
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