Firefox lock file?

[alex goretoy]

all of the files in the updated ownership.txt file need to be owned by YOU.
not root. You system will not break if you do

sudo chown -R ray.ray .

in your homedir, the permission denied you get for .gvfs is normal even if
your root

If you want to track changes in a directory and/or its file you can use
etckeeper, bzr is optional. It intended for /etc but you can use it to
keep/track changes to any dir

sudo apt-get install etckeeper bzr

If you moved files out of there originating directories you can try to
create a new account and compare that to your current account. just make
sure to run some of those apps first on the new account so it creates the
files those apps use in your new homedir

-Alex Goretoy
http://www.goretoy.com



On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:

> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:36 -0800, Ray Parrish wrote:
> >
> >> NoOp wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 02/10/2009 06:48 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> >>> [snips]
> >>>
> >>> You can find out if files in your home directory are
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> owned by a user other than yourself by running in your home directory:
> >>>>
> >>>> find . ! -user username -ls
> >>>>
> >>>> This will give you a list of the files with the wrong ownership.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Good suggestion. You might want to pipe that to a text file so that you
> >>> can easily view it if the output is too long:
> >>>
> >>> find . ! -user username -ls > ownership
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > Try running the find with sudo.  That will eliminate the Permission
> > denied messages.  It does look like you have a number of files which
> > should be owned by you and are not.
> >
> Ok, I re-ran the find with sudo, and still get one error message -
>
> ray at ray-desktop:~$ sudo find . ! -user ray -ls > ownership.txt
> [sudo] password for ray:
> find: ./.gvfs: Permission denied
>
> I've uploaded the new ownership.txt file to
>
> http://www.rayslinks.com/ownership.txt
>
> I'm sure that many of the folders shown as not owned by me are the ones
> I cut and pasted in, but do not remember exactly where I cut them from.
>
> If I ever get over this sore throat and constant coughing I will be
> getting on this a bit more closely. For now I have very little energy
> and a headache to boot.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a command to get output of a date sorted list
> of the folders in my user folder. If their dates changed when I cut and
> pasted them, at least I could tell which ones did not belong.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
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