Opps - Broke notes. Can it be saved?

[BobMCT]

I am not a notes person but I caused some grief recently with a notes/domino installation on a RH7.2 box.

I added a new user with confuser and set the home directory to "/". When I clicked on accept for add the user it seemed to go fine. However, it apparently changed all the permissions, recursively, for the notes/domino directories to something other than what they should have been. Our vendor states that the OS must be completely reinstalled and the notes/domino must also be completely reinstall. This actually sound ludicrous for even a M$ system. Has anyone experienced this and does anyone have any recommendations as how to correct this situation perhaps without a reinstallation of everything?

TIA

 

[fluid11]

Have you tried deleting the user and changing the permissions on the notes data and notes program directories?

ChrisP

 

[BobMCT]

Yes - did nothing. Also deleted the notes user and recreated it and it still won't work. Could notes be a Windoz program in disquise???

 

[fluid11]

Did you change all of the permissions for the entire filesystem? If so, then you do need to reinstall the OS. It shouldn't be difficult. I think that all you have to do is backup up your notes data directory (/local/notesdata is the default), reinstall the OS, restore the /local/notesdata directory, and recreate the notes user and group.

What happens when you change the permissions on the /local/notesdata directory so that user notes and group notes owns the directory (or whatever user/group you specified during the installation)? Does it not work?

chown -R notes /loca/notesdata
chgrp -R notes /local/notesdata
chmod -R 644 /local/notesdata

This won't work entirely since not all of the files and directories use 644 permissions. You'll have to look at a working installation and change the permissions on a bunch of files so that they match. The good news is it looks like a lot of files types use the same permissions. For example, maybe all .gifs use 444 and most .nsf's use 600, or something like that. This will make it a lot easier as you can set permissions like this...

chmod -R 444 *.gif

As for the OS, you must reinstall as it will be way too difficult to change all of the permissions on the thousands of files.


ChrisP

 

[BobMCT]

Thanks Chris;

Look like a reinstall it is...