One funny thing happened yesterday evening. Typically when I switch distros, I keep my desktop and laptop machines in sync and switch them both. That has proven to be valuable. As I was configuring my laptop last night… I was changing ownership of the \/var\/www directory and I messed up big time and changed the permissions\u00a0recursively<\/b>\u00a0of everything in \/var. Holy cow!<\/p>\n
Of course that’s a big deal because many of the critical running processes keep track of their status using \/var and they sort of need the right permissions to access their control stuff. Took me a few hours to straighten that out. And having two identical installations allowed me to compare the broken one with the non-broken one and correct the ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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