what are the default owner:group of the directories in /var?

I was trying to set the www directories and didn’t think about other directories in /var. <br> <br>Thanks Oliver!

Sorry, but you actually screwed it up. You can’t undo the chown command. However, since it’s just the /var directory that have messed permissions, you could try to fix them manually. On my Ubuntu 12.04 machine, permissions are as follows: <br> <br><pre> <br>drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 16 18:48 . <br>drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Sep 9 05:02 … <br> <br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 07:35 backups <br>drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Sep 9 09:17 cache <br>drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 4096 Oct 15 15:44 lib <br>drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Apr 19 2012 local <br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 8 09:45 lock -> /run/lock <br>drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Oct 22 07:35 log <br>drwxrwsrwt 2 root mail 4096 Oct 21 23:15 mail <br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 2012 opt <br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 8 09:45 run -> /run <br>drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 23 05:31 spool <br>drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 05:02 tmp <br>drwx------ 2 root bin 4096 Oct 8 09:45 webmin <br>drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 16 09:50 www <br></pre> <br> <br>and /var <br><pre>drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 16 18:48 var</pre> <br> <br>Be very careful when you’re setting permissions.

<b>“…chown’d everything in /var.”</b> <br> <br>Why would you do that? Did you read that somewhere?