I was trying to get gnome working. I had installed with fink w/out much problem, but in trying to get it working I really really messed up the system and had to re-install Panther. I couldn't even boot into anything just open firmware telling me no permissions for single user.
I still have many-many files that the permissions are "no access" on. I tried the disk utility program but it didn't do anything-it said it repaired but nothing changes. I know how to chown at a terminal but It's way too many files and sub-folders. Does anyone know of a way to get my permissions corrected again? (can I do chown -r on the whole filesystem?) Thanks
after thinking about this some more I think I may just have to dump everything and do a complete re-install not just a system re-install.
Well as a follow up I did the chmod -R & chown -R on my apps folder then I ran disk utility "repair permissions". Disk utility took about 20 minutes this time so I knew it was doing something.
And All my permissions with the exception of Applications (Mac OS 9 ) were back to normal-fixed.
