[Discuss] su stopped working

[noel at natnix.com]

Hi Murray,

If your distro is based on RPM, you can use rpm -V (verify) to check
installed files.  That's one feature I really miss in Debian.

--Noel


On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:15:06AM -0700, Murray Strome wrote:
> Thanks, Noel.
> 
> /bin/ping was not setuid either -- I have changed that.  It wasn't 
> lately, but could have been the cause of the problem because I think I 
> may have accidentally done a chmod -R before I went away on my last 
> trip.  I don't have tripwire installed. However, if I did accidentally 
> use the chmod -R incorrectly, lots of things are probably incorrect. 
> Anyway to fix them without reinstalling?
> 
> Murray
>