Unfortunetly changed the ownership of var

[Guna_2]

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

[Ragu_3]

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

[George Liu_4]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

if you use RPM-based distro, yo can use

rpm --setperms --setugids