On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:02:42PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > when you say 'the rest of /var should be owned by root as well,' do you > > mean everything under /var, not just the immediate subdirectories? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/gnucash$ ls -lR /var/* 2>&1 | awk '/^\// { / > curr_dir=$0 } /^[^\/tl]/ {if ($3!="root") print curr_dir " " $0}' > / > ~/non_root_vars > > produces the attached output. I think it is what you need, showing > only those things that are *not* root-owned in my /var. > > you can ignore /var/run. > > hth > > A
running: ls -lR /var/* 2>&1 | awk '/^\// { curr_dir=$0 } /^[^\/tl]/ {if ($3!="root") print curr_dir " " $0}' > ~/non_root_vars in file 't', i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./t ./t: line 1: /bin: is a directory and no 'non_root_vars' in my home. tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]