How to: Linux reset the permissions of the installed rpm packages

Posted by nixcraft on Aug 29, 2007 6:10 AM EDT
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Sometime by mistakes all package file permissions get changed and you need to restore file permission. For example a shell script or some sort of corruption could change the permissions for packages (installed files), it may be necessary to reset them. For example a long time ago my shell script run chmod and chown commands on /usr and changed the permission. Luckily rpm command can reset package permission. Sun Solaris pkg command and IBM can also reset permissions. How to: Linux reset the permissions of the installed rpm packages

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