Re: [SLE] Strange Problem

From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. (s.molnar_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 04/30/05

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    Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:45:31 -0400
    
    

    On Saturday April 30, 2005 02:06 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
    > On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 13:50 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
    > > Thanks for your reply.
    > >
    > > Let me ask you a qestion.
    > >
    > > I have one user, computation, on the machine in addition to root. I set
    > > the permissions on the /etc tree to computation.users, but the /bin
    > > directory, and hence both csh and tcsh are set root.root. Should this be
    > > changed, also. Or am I going about this incorrectly?
    > >
    > > Here is my / director listing
    > >
    > > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 560 2005-04-30 13:49 .
    > > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 560 2005-04-30 13:49 ..
    > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2896 2005-04-27 10:45 bin
    > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 536 2005-04-24 08:43 boot
    > > drwxr-xr-x 21 computation users 4096 2005-04-23 13:10 data1
    > > drwxr-xr-x 13 computation users 336 2005-04-29 14:21 data2
    > > drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 181968 2005-04-30 08:02 dev
    > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-04-30 13:49 dir.txt
    > > drwxr-xr-x 97 root root 8776 2005-04-30 08:02 etc
    > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 2005-04-24 09:40 home
    > > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 3640 2005-04-25 09:22 lib
    > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 144 2005-04-29 14:34 media
    > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-03-23 16:34 mnt
    > > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 280 2005-04-28 08:56 opt
    > > dr-xr-xr-x 122 root root 0 2005-04-30 04:01 proc
    > > drwx------ 22 root root 1056 2005-04-30 13:49 root
    > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 9056 2005-04-24 10:07 sbin
    > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 2005-04-24 09:13 srv
    > > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 2005-04-30 04:01 sys
    > > drwxrwxrwt 26 root root 50512 2005-04-30 13:45 tmp
    > > drwxr-xr-x 13 computation users 368 2005-04-24 14:03 usr
    > > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 360 2005-04-24 08:36 var
    > >
    > > Thanks in advance.
    >
    > Why are you changing the owner/group on /usr? Put it back to root.root
    > or you will have further system problems. Who knows what else you could
    > have screwed up. Please do not change the perms/owner of system
    > files/dirs unless you want to end up installing your system fresh again.

    What about /data1 and /data2?
    >
    > --
    > Ken Schneider
    > UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
    >
    > "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
    > the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

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