I have used the following to fix "broken" perms on a RH system:

for packages in `rpm -qa`
do
  rpm --setperms $packages
  rpm --setugids $packages
done

perhaps debians package manager has similar functionality.

scott


On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Bill Earl wrote:

> Yeah, but I had to have tripwire installed and checking before the files got
> hosed :).
> 
> Yep, the current stable version doesn't include the time travel option that
> we all need from time to time.  ;)
> 
> Bill
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