On Sunday 06 August 2006 11:51 am, Seb wrote: > That seems to be the way to go now without bothering with the issue I > described in my second paragraph. However, I don't want to do that to the > whole new /home/my_user directory, as I have some files here and there > that need to retain a different ownership. Should I do this only to > ~/.kde? Because it's really only a problem with KDE stuff.
Yes, that's just what I'd do. You can go file by file, directory by directory, whatever you need to do. You can probably see the root of the problem if you look hard enough. You'll usually see something like ->ls -l total 0 -rw-r----- 1 me me 0 Aug 6 12:09 bar -rw-r----- 1 me me 0 Aug 6 12:09 blee -rw-r----- 1 1002 1002 0 Aug 6 12:09 foo with the number, or maybe some nonsensical alternative name being your clue those are the files/directories you don't properly own. It's bound to be something like this, if you've got gobs of disk space. If you can't figure out which files you don't own, I can probably work out some cleverness with the find command. I don't know the syntax, but I expect there's some way to make it find everything not owned by a particular UID. Or find everything, find only files for a given UID, and compare them to find the difference. Or something. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
