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Permissions of logs

Asked by Jon Charge

I moved the logs from var/log to a separate partition and set fstab to mount that partition in /var/log. I noticed that during the move (which I completed with the live cd) the permissions are not correct. (what should be owned by syslog, not owned by syslog anymore) Is there a program I can run to reset all the permissions back?

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

The 'program' calls chown and chmod.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

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Jon Charge (seropith) said : 		#2

Yes, I see. That would cause me to have to change each one individually. Do you know of one that exists that will intelligently do this for me in one batch?

Jon

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#3

You can use the (-R) recurse option of chown and chmod:

sudo chown -R username:username /directory/folder/*
sudo chmod -R 755 /directory/folder/*

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