restoring default ownerships/permissions: was networking prob

[Steve Flynn]

On 15/09/2007, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> think I originally messed up installing a 2nd hard drive. Everything
> appeared
> fine until I noticed I couldn't get one system to get an address from the
> router. I believe the orginal prob was caused by
>
> sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /
>
> however I thought maybe trying to return the root partion to root ownship
> and
> perissions,  i.e. the above but root in place of username which appears to
> have meseed it up a lil further
>
>
Ouch. This installation is now hosed. In trying to recover this you're going
to spend a lot of time for little gain and have no confidence that the
permissions are correct when you finish.

Save yourself pain, stick in an install CD and reinstall from scratch.


-- 
Steve
When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people
suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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