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Huh, I feel kinda dumb right now.
Just did an

chown -R www-data:www-data .*

and voilá, /var is all messed up.
Already fixed some to root, but mysql refuses to start.
How can I restore the owner/group to /var/* on a Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ?
Thanks!

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  • If nothing better, boot up other ubuntu VM and copy one by one :( Apr 25, 2012 at 1:05

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Try this:

$ chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql
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  • Done it already, did't work. also fixed the mysqld.sock :| Apr 25, 2012 at 1:11
  • So, did that work, then?
    – EEAA
    Apr 25, 2012 at 1:18
  • To MySQL, yes. Thank you. Now I have to check the rest, some things might be broken too and I didn't notice...yet :| Apr 25, 2012 at 1:26

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