Messed up ownerships in /etc

[Akaihiryuu]

I just happened to check my /etc directory, and somehow all of my ownerships have gotten messed up. Virtually the whole directory is owned by one of the regular accounts I have instead of root, so it's <user>:users for most of it. I need to change this back to what it's supposed to be, but I don't remember what the ownerships in /etc are supposed to be. Can anyone check their /etc for ownerships and see what most packages are? I have a feeling that most of it will be root:root, but I do have apache, postfix, and a few other things like that installed that will need the correct ownerships. I really don't want to have to spend a week reinstalling this thing and getting it back to where it was. And it's ONLY /etc that has the problem, so I think it's likely something that's fixable. Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. I think I might've done it accidentally with a mistyped chown command...

[thebigslide]

It's mostly root:root
common exceptions: vpopmail.conf is root:vpopmail, the portage subdir is root:portage (recursively)
other than that, should work
try restarting all yer services and see what fails

[Akaihiryuu]

Okay...a couple of other directories I have questions about that are only on this system (my other Gentoo systems don't have those packages installed):

apache, apache2, apcupsd, bind, cups, firebird, mysql, squid, unrealircd, ircservices, and vhosts

Could someone check the ownerships on these directories in /etc?

[thebigslide]

cups is root:lp
apache, apache2, mysql, vhosts are all root:root
try the others are root:root as that seems likely and restart the services.
if they won't restart, you'll have to less /etc/group maybe and look for likely candidate groups.
Or you could reemerge those packages, check which group portage sets the dir to and then