From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 19:48:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F64816A559 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 19:48:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from netmusician.org (netmusician.org [216.9.132.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1751543D45 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 19:48:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E047E8A9; Sun, 21 May 2006 15:48:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at netmusician.org Received: from netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jauty.suso.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yIpVdAh7dIpe; Sun, 21 May 2006 15:48:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [12.205.33.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA6C67E8A8; Sun, 21 May 2006 15:48:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20060521165025.GA54035@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20060521165025.GA54035@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joe Auty Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 15:48:25 -0400 To: David Kelly X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: clean reinstall all ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:48:33 -0000 On May 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, David Kelly wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:40:05AM -0400, Joe Auty wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I kind of messed up the permissions of my /usr/local directory. Is >> there a way to clean install all ports? I notice that manually >> reinstalling doesn't seem to correct all permission errors, which is >> why doing some sort of clean reinstall that would produce squeaky >> clean versions of all my ports would be great. >> >> Any way to do this? > > portupgrade -fa > Yeah, this is what I was using, but it doesn't seem to recreate permissions properly... it just seems to inherit permissions from the parent directory, although it sets permissions contained within the directory where the files are installed properly. I could be mistaken here though... ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org