23 Apr
2015
23 Apr
'15
9:51 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 04:59:21AM +0000, Toby Corkindale wrote:
find -type f crypted -exec rewrite_file \{\} \; where rewrite_file does something like cp $FILE tmp_file rm $FILE mv tmp_file $FILE
if you're going to do something like this then use 'cp -a' to preserve file ownership, group, permissions, and timestamps. otherwise you'll find everything owned by root.root with permissions set according to your umask, and a timestamp of now. this is precisely what you DO NOT want and something that's extremly difficult and tedious to fix without either a good backup or a reinstall (if the files being copied are system/package files) craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>