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joangopan

09-07-2007 08:49 PM

chown -R named:named /var/named crash the system?

I have Fedora Core 4

instaled in my machine have Bind and bind-chroot ...

My question is if my run

chown -R named:named /var/named

Symbolic Links affect all system changing all permision to named:named product of this command.

Other thing i can restore permissions to rigth access?

Thanks for your help

win32sux

09-07-2007 09:01 PM

You can make a backup of the directory before changing anything:

Code:

cp -a /var/named /var/named.bak

What kinda links do you have in that directory?

Code:

find /var/named -type l

unSpawn

09-09-2007 02:46 AM

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