[5521] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 2 Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Smith)
Thu Nov 21 21:30:19 1996
Date: 22 Nov 1996 03:22:04 -0000
From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
To: tdukes@netside.com
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tdukes@netside.com wrote:
> 1) What should the correct permissions be for /dev? Last night, I was
> wanting to change them for /home/ftp/dev/ and got /dev by mistake.
> Everything still seems to be working but I'd like to know what they're
> supposed to be out of the box. I mistakenly changed them to drwx--x--x.
Most of the special files in /dev are from the dev package. Try running
rpm -qlv dev | awk '{ system ( "chown " $2 ":" $3 " " $8 ) }'
Be forewarned that I haven't actually tried it.
Cheers,
Eric
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