Re: Permission wierdness

[mike list <roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Mitchell wrote:

> 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
> >

If there's a comprehensive way to do so, yes. I'm running Slack4.0.
kinda scary, having the environment I gradually hacked out for myself  take a dive.
I think that the cause for the problem is that I "sudo tar zxvf'ed "a binary into /.
Does this sound plausible?