Re: Trying to fix a stupid mistake

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> 
> 
> "Rooty D'Qt" <rooty_dqt yahoo com> writes:
> > 
> > I am a linux newbie and, in my infinite wisdom (don't
> > laugh anybody) I decided to change ALL of the
> > permissions on my machine. Yes, I did say all.
> > It took me a day or two to figure out how to fix
> > whatever I'd done, and now I can do anything I need to
> > from the command line. GNOME sorta loads... I can get
> > just past the login screen, where I am faced with a
> > sea of blue.
> > When I ran linuxconf to see if there were any other
> > file permissions to be changed, nothing came up.
> > However, there has to be something I haven't done, or
> > GNOME would work.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> > 
> 
> Reinstall - you are royally screwed.
> 
> Havoc

Doesn't "rpm --setperms" reset all file permissions to their original
values.  Assuming this is an RPM based system, I'd try that first.

HTH,
Dave