Hi, i've made a big mistake how can i revert the process. it needs to be like list one instead o f list 2


list1:

total 108
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 2004 ITsoftware/
drwx--x--x 3 adrian root 4096 Aug 12 09:26 adrian/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6144 Aug 11 18:23 aquota.group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Aug 11 18:23 aquota.user
drwx------ 20 carlos users 4096 Apr 30 16:07 carlos/
drwx--x--x 25 carlosm users 4096 Jul 6 17:40 carlosm/
drwx--x--x 2 dtcruz users 4096 Mar 17 2004 dtcruz/
drwxr-s--T 5 egresado egregr 4096 Jun 5 23:15 egresados/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2003 ftp/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 10 2004 home/
drwxrwxr-x 44 nobody users 4096 Jul 1 12:15 httpd/
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 5177 Jan 29 2003 httpd.directory
drwxrwxr-x 70 nobody nobody 8192 Oct 8 2004 httpdOLD/
drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody egregr 4096 Apr 4 2000 itmweb/
drwx--x--x 3 jsp users 4096 May 6 2004 jsp/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 10 2004 lost+found/
drwx------ 14 malvido users 4096 Oct 10 2003 malvido/
drwx--x--x 2 mario root 4096 Jun 20 18:32 mario/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 30 15:42 prueba
drwxr-xr-x 2 egresado users 4096 May 30 14:36 quintero/
drwx--x--x 12 1001 users 4096 Apr 27 2004 rael/
root@www:/home# chown adrian:users
chown: too few arguments
Try `chown --help' for more information.
root@www:/home# chown adrian:users *
root@www:/home# LS -L
-bash: LS: command not found
root@www:/home# ls -l
total 108



list2:

drwxr-xr-x 2 adrian users 4096 Apr 30 2004 ITsoftware/
drwx--x--x 3 adrian users 4096 Aug 12 09:26 adrian/
-rw-r--r-- 1 adrian users 6144 Aug 11 18:23 aquota.group
-rw-r--r-- 1 adrian users 8192 Aug 11 18:23 aquota.user
drwx------ 20 adrian users 4096 Apr 30 16:07 carlos/
drwx--x--x 25 adrian users 4096 Jul 6 17:40 carlosm/
drwx--x--x 2 adrian users 4096 Mar 17 2004 dtcruz/
drwxr-s--T 5 adrian users 4096 Jun 5 23:15 egresados/
drwxr-xr-x 2 adrian users 4096 Sep 23 2003 ftp/
drwxr-xr-x 5 adrian users 4096 Feb 10 2004 home/
drwxrwxr-x 44 adrian users 4096 Jul 1 12:15 httpd/
-rw------- 1 adrian users 5177 Jan 29 2003 httpd.directory
drwxrwxr-x 70 adrian users 8192 Oct 8 2004 httpdOLD/
drwxr-xr-x 4 adrian users 4096 Apr 4 2000 itmweb/
drwx--x--x 3 adrian users 4096 May 6 2004 jsp/
drwx------ 2 adrian users 16384 Feb 10 2004 lost+found/
drwx------ 14 adrian users 4096 Oct 10 2003 malvido/
drwx--x--x 2 adrian users 4096 Jun 20 18:32 mario/
-rw-r--r-- 1 adrian users 0 May 30 15:42 prueba
drwxr-xr-x 2 adrian users 4096 May 30 14:36 quintero/
drwx--x--x 12 adrian users 4096 Apr 27 2004 rael/

At least you didn't chown -R it

I'm a little dum for this can you be a little more descriptive

thanks.

Actually... my command missed a few things, a few oddities in /home where the dirname was not the same as the owner.

Why don't you just chown them properly? There aren't that many to be changed.

ok, can you please send me an example of how to chown one.

And read the chown man page.

Thank you very much Matir,
i've got it .
may be later if you have time you can explain how the following works

# cd /home ; for i in * ; do [ -d "$i" ] && chown $i:users $i ; done
# chown root:root aquota.*

That little one-liner was supposed to set the owner of each directory to the name of the directory, based on the assumption that owner(/home/DIR)==DIR, which is generally true for user home dirs.

It just looped through the dirs and performed chown.

Don't use "urgent" in thread titles, it's not gonna make people reply any quicker .