[nycbug-talk] Yup, I did it: chown -R ....

Matt Juszczak matt at atopia.net
Fri Nov 7 13:17:22 EST 2008


> But is there anyway to do this without overwriting NEWER files that have been 
> installed into /var (such as /var/db/mysql for mysql?)

Also, now I'm nervous to reboot the box.  It all seems to be working fine, 
but I'm afraid certain files having incorrect permissions and/or 
group/user ownership could cause the box to stop rebooting.

Technically, everything boots as root right?



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