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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: NIU >Keywords: 200408052220.i75MKIaW005874 McIDAS LDM mcscour.sh Gilbert, >Well, I just royally messed things up, and fixed them again. Here's what I >found. > >chown -R ldm * > >Will recursively change everything from the directory you are in, and >their subdirectories, to user ldm. First, given the changes you have made to users' groups, I would make sure to include the group in the chown directives: chown -R ldm:users * >chown -R ldm *.* > >Only does the directory you are in, AND misses links. > >chown -R ldm .* > >Changes everything in the master subdirectory you are in. If you are in >"/var" and you do this, you're screwed. Yup. >Time to reinstall the OS! I don't think you have to reinstall, but... >Is this a bug? I don't know. Back to the question of how /home became owned by a user other than 'root'. I believe that this was the cause of all of the problems. Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. >From address@hidden Tue Aug 10 13:17:47 2004 Hi Tom, > First, given the changes you have made to users' groups, I would make > sure to include the group in the chown directives: > > chown -R ldm:users * OK. > >chown -R ldm *.* > > > >Only does the directory you are in, AND misses links. > > > >chown -R ldm .* > > > >Changes everything in the master subdirectory you are in. If you are in > >"/var" and you do this, you're screwed. > > Yup. Now I understand. > >Time to reinstall the OS! > > I don't think you have to reinstall, but... Oh, I meant if one were to foolishly do that in the /var or other "important" subdirectory. > >Is this a bug? > > I don't know. > > Back to the question of how /home became owned by a user other than > 'root'. I believe that this was the cause of all of the problems. Ok. Well, I think everything is fixed now, and weather3 is now ingesting data from the Internet instead of weather2. And weather2 is feeding (mostly) off of weather3. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: address@hidden *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************