Re: Permission wierdness

[Kevin Mitchell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had this kind of thing happen when I installed RPM on my Slackware
machine.  Do you need to know what perms should be on different dirs?

Kevin

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, mike list wrote:

> Can anyone give me any ideas regarding a permissions problem, to whit: last
> night I had a profound change of permissions(restrictive)in the /usr and /etc
> directories. Other than an intrusion or explicit use of chmod, what might have
> caused this? I'm going through those filesystems piecemeal since I have lost
> the capability to run several apps, and must bring up ppp0 as root(not all
> bad). A reboot appears to have unmounted a couple of partitions sloppily as
> well. I have a swapfile in /usr/local that might account for one of those , but
> the other?
> 
> Any help, or blanket permissions rules(libs and executables) would be most
> helpful
> 
> Labor Day fer sure
> 
> -Mike List
>