topic Re: chown command! need help! in Operating System - HP-UX

chown command! need help!

Igor Sovin — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:58:12 GMT

Hi
I've mistaken doing command chown.
I did
#chown -R root:sys /
and then pressed Enter.
In what files or folders I've changed ownership?
Is it possible to rool back?

Re: chown command! need help!

Eric Antunes — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:17:55 GMT

Hi Igor,

The only rollback I figure is to restore from your Ignite tape. But since I'm not a system administrator guru wait for them before doing anything more or open a call at HP...

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

Re: chown command! need help!

Slawomir Gora — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:26:52 GMT

Hi,

you have changed owner and group for all files in your system :(

there is no normal roolback method, you can restore system from backup or restore to another server and collect permissions in shell script which can be used in your primary server.

Re: chown command! need help!

Arunvijai_4 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:33:18 GMT

Hello,

Have you interrupted the command execution anytime ? if not, you have changed ownership of ALL files and folders. Only way is to Ignite your system.

-Arun

Re: chown command! need help!

Bharat Katkar — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:44:46 GMT

This is a very ciritical thing you have done and restoring things is diffcult though not impossible.
Fast solution woould be to restore ignite backup if you have one.

regards,

Re: chown command! need help!

Borislav Perkov — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:48:20 GMT

Hi,

The only way is restoring the server. Ignite for system and restore or reinstall the applications and databases. :-(

Regards,
Borislav

Re: chown command! need help!

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:49:32 GMT

Hi Igor:

If you are running 11.11 or higher:

# swverify -F \* @ /

...will handle the files and directories in the IPD (Installed Product Database) *but* you may have changed ownership on files and directories in non-vg00 filesystems too!

As mentioned, you could also use an Ignite recovery tape to recover vg00.

I'm afraid that you have a significant amount of recovery and detective work to do. Good luck.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: chown command! need help!

Kent Ostby — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:09:14 GMT

Or of course you can use the brute force method...

Find another system and check the ownership of files on that box and chown one dir at a time.

/etc
/sbin

Re: chown command! need help!

Kent Ostby — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:10:00 GMT

Sorry.. hit enter too soon.

/etc/
/sbin

are the first and most important to get / keep things running on the system.

Re: chown command! need help!

Chan 007 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:57:23 GMT

I agree with JRF, you need to add check_permission=true

Else Ignite...

007