topic Re: Unfortunetly changed the ownership of var in Operating System - Linux

Unfortunetly changed the ownership of var

Guna_2 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:07:59 GMT

Dear all

By mistake my software guy changed the /var folder ownership to oracle user and oracle group
by using the command
chown oracle:oracle /var -R

Now my xinetd service also not starting as well as x service also not starting. I dont have any backup also.

Can any one help me please

Thanks and Regards,
Guna

Re: Unfortunetly changed the ownership of var

Ragu_3 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:14:21 GMT

The ownership on /var is "root:root" with 0755 as the dir permission.

Re: Unfortunetly changed the ownership of var

George Liu_4 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:44:37 GMT

most of subdirectories under /var are root:root, but most should be different,YOu may check other systems to get the full list.

Re: Unfortunetly changed the ownership of var

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:00:42 GMT

if you use RPM-based distro, yo can use

rpm --setperms --setugids