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Re: chown as root

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Thu Nov 7 22:21:13 1996

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 22:18:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19961108035239.26927.qmail@brouhaha.com>
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On 8 Nov 1996, Eric Smith wrote:

> Vlad Petersen <vladimip@iceonline.com> wrote:
> The real solution to the original problem (acidentally changing the
> ownership of *everything*) is to somehow extract the original ownership
> information from the RPM database, and process it with a script that sets
> the ownership.  However, I can't find an rpm query option that gives the
> ownership.  "rpm -qal" only gives the file paths; if there was only some way
> to coax it to give more detailed info...

rpm -qlav

-- Elliot

A: "Talk about stupidity!"
B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"


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