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Old 12-15-2008
Getting rid of files with no ownership
I am in the process of learning how to do system administration (just on my own Linux machine) and have been working with the find command. One of the things I tried was

Code:
find / -nouser -o -nogroup

I redirected the output of my find query into a text file, and when I did a wc -l on it, it says the file has 127067 lines! Yikes. I also have done searches looking for group and world writable files as well as group and world writable directories. The results of the latter two searches were not as dramatic, but there were some 'hits'..

What would some of you do in a situation like this? Change all the ownerships to root? What about the writable files and directories?

I am running Gentoo Linux on an x86_64 machine.
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Old 12-16-2008
how about running this command instead?
Code:
find / -nouser -o -nogroup 2>/dev/null

 
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