Upgrade FAIL

[websnail]

Thanks... We are still up and running although someone with a chicken fetish was rather rude about my front page.. *mock harumph*

 

[stratman]

...someone with a chicken fetish was rather rude about my front page.. *mock harumph*

???

 

[jimbo123]

sorta late to the party here. 25+ years UNIX/linux network admin experience here, could have maybe helped out.

be glad you didn't toss a -R in there, that would have done a recursive chown/chgrp from / down

you might have been able to quickly recover by changing owner and group back to root in / ie:
# chown root:root /*

then test the applications, web servers, mail server, etc to see what else needed to be tweaked as far as owner/group

if you have a backup server, you could check the owner/group perms in / to figure out the proper owner/group

or if all else fails, you can use the too often used excuse that you were testing out your backup and recovery procedures.....

glad you're back up

J

do a
#ls -lt /
then print and/or email the output so to snapshot the owner/group perms in / just in case it happens again

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[websnail]

Thanks jimbo123...

As it happened there was a -R in there and I was well and truly fubar... Thankfully the backup system I'd opted for was able to handle it and the work done on the site upgrade wasn't lost thanks to a quick thinking tar and mysqldump before the chown command got that far into the server..

It was one of those learning curve things...


@Stratman... If you don't know, don't ask

 

[stratman]

@Stratman... If you don't know, don't ask

Yeah, but, the US Senate just repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"...

On the other hand, maybe ignorance is bliss. I don't want to get you in any trouble.

 

[The Hat]

Is this one of them why did the chicken cross the road jokes Martin.
I am curious too..

 

[stratman]

Is this one of them why did the chicken cross the road jokes Martin.
I am curious too..

May have something to do with the owner of Nifty-Stuff. Check out the chicken on the home page: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/

 

[The Hat]

Thats alright then we are only having turkey on Saturday..