CentOS Messed Up

djexploit · 05-20-2012, 09:17 AM

Hi, my CentOS has been messed up somehow. I used NoMachine to connect to the vps and it worked perfectly fine. Until i started to play with the permissions xD.
So I just need to know how to fully restore the default centos on my server. Isnt there some kind of command that just resets everything the way it was before?

rknichols · 05-20-2012, 09:39 AM

You can run rpm with the "--setperms" option to restore the original permissions. Doing this for all packages gets a little more complicated, but this should work (please forgive me for not trying this on my system):

Code:

 rpm -qa | xargs rpm --setperms

If you've also made ownership changes, you might need to do this again with the "--setugids" option. Note that these will only affect files that were installed with the RPM. Files that were created later by running programs will not be affected.

djexploit · 05-20-2012, 09:44 AM

Cool. If it worked

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When i do a command, whatever it can be it says this:

-bash: /usr/bin/xargs: Permission denied

I need to fix this ;o.

unSpawn · 05-20-2012, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djexploit

I need to fix this

Given your first post I'd say you need to fix the hiatus in your knowledge before asking your provider to restore the VPS image for you...

djexploit · 05-20-2012, 10:48 AM

.... I'm new to linux, don't know a lot about it so. No idea how this error has occured tho, i didnt change a lot in the permissions.