I got the idea how I should have done it, working with tar with some specific tars. My biggest concern at the moment is however to repair the whole thing.
Some of my problems so far: - nothing is being logged in /var/log, even with chmod 777 the whole thing (which doesn't exactly helps me in repairing the whole thing) - I can't get mail from the outside, intern it works Could someone send me a "sudo ls -lR /var > filename" or something else that would help me out Mayby this is a security risk for your system, maybe with --ignore=*`hostname`* you could protect yourself against my evil cracker-mind. Thanks in advance, Sander On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:35:02PM +0100, S.P. van Noort wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I decided to put /var on a seperate partition, and I used the command > > cp -R /var/* /tmpvar (/tmpvar the new partitiona for /var) > > and then deleted /var and mounted the new partition on /var. > > > > It was (a couple of minutes) later that I found out that everything > > on the new partition has owner and group root, and it looks that also some > > of the permissions have changed, although I'm not sure of that. > > > > Can someone help me, for example by sending me a full ls -Rl of /var. > > > > And can someone tell me what I should have done, a special flag for cp for > > example. > > One option is to use tar through a pipe: > > Moving from /somedir to /otherdir: > > cd /somedir > tar cvf - . | ( cd otherdir; tar xvf - ) > > ...not sure why I prefer this (I'm an old fart, I guess), but it > preserves links and file permissions in a good way. > > ...it's also a good idea to at least to a quick visual analysis of the > results and compare target to source before blowing away the original. > > -- > Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > > SAS for Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html > Mailing list: "subscribe sas-linux" to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
