Daily Archives: 28.10.2008

There are very rare times I like the RPM package management or a redhat system. … But anyhow I had to deal with this and recover the machine. Almost none of the system daemons startet and even a console login wasn’t possible due to wrong permissions of vital files. … The RPM database contains information about the permission of all packages.

…/bin/sh -x for package in `/bin/rpm -qa`; do /bin/rpm -qv –setperms $package done So simply boot in single user mode and create this little script an run it. Continue reading →