[sllug-members]: Re: CHMOD Big Oops!

[Will Aoki]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:04:24PM -0600, Justin Searle wrote:
[snipped Debian Etch chmod -R 777]
> Or if you really want to have some fun, write a script to do it for you like 
> suggested earlier.

... perhaps something like this:

apt-get install -f -s --reinstall `dpkg --get-selections | grep '	install' | cut -f 1`

(Note that that's a tab, not spaces, between "'" and "install'".)

That ought to fix most of the system - then, you can just
'find / -mode 0777 -print' to locate everything that needs to be fixed
by hand.

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William Aoki         waoki at waoki.org              KD7YAF