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Is Changing ownership result in a System Crash?

  • 1.  Is Changing ownership result in a System Crash?

    Posted Tue March 10, 2009 10:46 AM

    Originally posted by: AshuBhardwaj


    Hi,
    I had to run the following command under a particular directory ie /usr/test/samples
    chown -R win:win *

    But by mistake i ran it from root directory. I cancelled the operation inbetween itself (but disaster had happened by the time i cancelled). Later I manually reverted back the ownership to its original ownerships by comparing with another system.

    Now my only worry is that If i reboot the system, Will it end up in a system crash? If so, what are the recovery steps?
    Is there any chances that the System comes up normally without giving error (or with errors)?

    Need urgent help on this.
    Thanks in advance.


  • 2.  Re: Is Changing ownership result in a System Crash?

    Posted Wed March 11, 2009 05:59 AM

    Originally posted by: grukrz1


    You can try to restore permissions from mksysb using restore command.

    check this thread:
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14102270


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