[3639] in RedHat Linux List
Re: chown as root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Sangrey)
Sat Nov 9 20:11:26 1996
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CC: Jason Benderly <jbenderl@painewebber.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 1996 22:18:52 EST."
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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 20:07:29 -0500
From: Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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Elliot Lee wrote:
> 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
>
Aaahhhhhh.
Try
rpm -qlav \
| awk '{printf "chown %s.%s %s\n", $2, $3, $8}' \
| egrep -v 'root.root|0.0'
first. This will give a list of "hmmmmm...that's a little different than I
want. With that list in hand, do
rpm -qlav | awk '{printf "chown %s.%s %s\n", $2, $3, $8}' > /tmp/fixem
then edit 'fixem' to your liking, and run it.
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