[nmglug] Postfix

[Bob Knight]

At a previous job, a colleague was in Germany installing our software on 
a customer's Digital UNIX system.

As root, he did "chmod -R 600 .*" or something similar.

The only thing I could think of to say when he got me on the phone was 
Geoff Goodfellow's canonical error message: "Sorry, you lose". We did 
get it back together, finally, but it really sucked. For a long time.

Bob

troy banther wrote:

>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:
>  
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>>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!
>>
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