Hi everybody, I'm a little bit in trouble guys! I was changing permission on a folder to compleate an installation (joomla) I type in this command: chown -R -v -f web22_xxxxx:web22 /* In this way I changed a lot of files and folder permissions!! I would like to change only the permission on 1 specific folder (the web folder). I'm not a linux expert, I'm only trying to do the best of myself... By the way when I realized that the command was wrong it was to late!! The command run only for few seconds but now I can't log on my ISPConfig admin console! I receive this error: Code: Warning: include(../lib/config.inc.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/login.php on line 30 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../lib/config.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:') in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/login.php on line 30 Warning: require_once(login/lib/lang/.lng) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/login.php on line 31 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'login/lib/lang/.lng' (include_path='.:') in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/login.php on line 31 The only modified folders that I can see in the console (putty) are with this path changed ownership of `/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/phpmyadmin/themes/original/img/b_lastpage.png' to web22_xxxxxx:web22 Do you know if exists an easy way to go back?? I really don't know what I can do! Please help, Thanks /nox
This effectively started your command from the top level root directory. Everything is now changed. There is almost no way to recover except a complete reinstall. Sorry.
But, do you know in which way it start to edit the permission? Starting in alphabetic order or something like that? I have another server that have the same installation. Perhaps I can try to change again the permission one by one spotting them on the other server. The problem is that I need to know where to start... Also can you tell me the right command to edit the permission on one specific folder? Thanks
I would try to recover the situation... not destroy everything... Actually i wouldn't like to re-install again!
ok... looking to the other server I can see the folders where I've changed the permission. Now I'd like to know the right command to edit permission... Thanks!!!
chown normally starts with the lowest numbered i-node. See this as a unique identifier. The way i-nodes are numbered differ from system to system, even if you use the same installation/distro. If you want to compare everything manually, open three ssh sessions, one to your working system (system A), two to your corrupted system (system B). Type Code: cd / ls -al | less on screen of system A and one screen of system B. Compare each and every line. On the second screen of system B, use Code: chown right_user.right_group <full file name> to set the owner/group correctly. Do all this as user 'root'. Be prepared to work on this for about two days, depending how much you installed.
Right thanks I've just started. I found something like that: Code: server1:/bin # chown root:root /bin/* server1:/bin # ls -la total 6224 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 10 20:23 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Jul 17 2006 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3472 Sep 13 2005 arch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110912 Sep 9 2005 ash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 584652 Sep 9 2005 ash.static lrwxrwxrwx 1 web22_xxxxxxx web22 4 Jul 6 2006 awk -> gawk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15168 Jan 31 2006 basename -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 490716 Sep 9 2005 bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19220 Jan 31 2006 cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37020 Jan 31 2006 chgrp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36044 Jan 31 2006 chmod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40284 Jan 31 2006 chown -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5000 Sep 9 2005 chvt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61548 Jan 31 2006 cp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100480 Apr 27 2006 cpio lrwxrwxrwx 1 web22_xxxxxxx web22 4 Jul 9 2006 csh -> tcsh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47368 Jan 31 2006 date -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44748 Jan 31 2006 dd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5472 Sep 9 2005 deallocvt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38696 Jan 31 2006 df -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5140 Sep 13 2005 dmesg lrwxrwxrwx 1 web22_xxxxxxx web22 8 Jul 6 2006 dnsdomainname -> hostname lrwxrwxrwx 1 web22_xxxxxx web22 4 Jul 6 2006 sh -> bash using this command: Code: chown root:root /bin/* As you can see that folders whit this symbol ->, (are them folders? ) don't change the permission to root... Do you know why?
-> indicate a symbolic link, a pointer to the actual file. To change the symbolic link owner/group add the -h flag: Code: chown -h root:root /bin/filename Please stop using the asterix '*'to address files. It will expand to every file in the /bin directory (in this example). Using the * constantly will bring you further and further away from solving this. Use the real and full path name. Example: /usr/bin/vi. Nothing less.
