messed var directory

[Brian McKee]

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On 14/06/07, Sven Richter  wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> recently i did something very stupid,
> instad of chmodding /var/www/*
> i chmodded /var/* with 0700 recurseviley.
> No i got several problems, i cant search apt database
> as user and so on.
>
> Is there any way i could recover the old permissions?
> Something like an overview about the standard setup?
>

Good one :-)

FWIW chmod 755 everything would be closer than 0700
then /var/lock tmp and crash are 1777 /var/local and mail are 2775

but that's just a dirty surface fix.   Maybe there's some way to coax
the default permissions info out of dpkg?      I'd love to hear
suggestions on this one - I can see me doing it :-)

Brian
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