messed var directory

[Scott Lockwood]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:01 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> On 14/06/07, Sven Richter  wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > recently i did something very stupid,
> > instad of chmodding /var/www/*
> > i chmodded /var/* with 0700 recurseviley.
> > No i got several problems, i cant search apt database
> > as user and so on.
> >
> > Is there any way i could recover the old permissions?
> > Something like an overview about the standard setup?
> >
> 
> Good one :-)
> 
> FWIW chmod 755 everything would be closer than 0700
> then /var/lock tmp and crash are 1777 /var/local and mail are 2775
> 
> but that's just a dirty surface fix.   Maybe there's some way to coax
> the default permissions info out of dpkg?      I'd love to hear
> suggestions on this one - I can see me doing it :-) 

Ugh. Be there, done that - did a full reinstall. Can't trust anything
else...

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Regards,
Scott Lockwood