[nmglug] Postfix

[troy banther]

Hehe. I've done that.

It was my home system. It was shortly after moving to Linux. I rebuilt
the system

I am very careful with my tYp!np now.

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:40, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> Mars DeLapp wrote:
> > Opps! I was trying to coordinate UIDs and GIDs between computers and I 
> > screwed up the ownership of some files when I ran the following command.
> > 
> >   find / -group 1002 -print -exec chown 202 {} \;
> > 
> > that should have been "chown :202"
> 
> Once I was working in XEmacs 'dired', changing the ownership and 
> permsissions of a whole tree of files...  I goofed and acted on . which 
> whas the / directory, rather than on *, the marked set of directories. 
> It was taking way to long to run...
> 
> I used the file system of another machine as a template to reset things. 
>   It wasted half my day.  I'll bet that I never make that mistake again!
> 
> _______________________________________________
> nmglug mailing list
> nmglug at nmglug.org
> http://www.nmglug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmglug