Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

From	Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory
Date	2021-05-19 00:30 +0200
Message-ID	<CggnT-vt-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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I goofed up and accidentally moved my /usr directory while trying to 
make room on a full drive. I was able to recover, but I'm finding that 
services are not working because the sticky bits for many files 
/usr/bin/* were lost. For example, I can't send email with exim because 
of this error:

Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim4//input//1lj87g-0002tS-5J-D: 
Permission denied

Is there an easy way to ensure I set all the permissions back to where 
they were before I move /usr?

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Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-05-19 00:30 +0200
  Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-05-19 01:50 +0200
    Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory s@dondley.com - 2021-05-19 02:10 +0200
    Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-19 05:50 +0200
      Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-05-19 13:00 +0200
  Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 02:20 +0200
  Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-05-19 02:30 +0200
    Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-05-19 08:50 +0200
      Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-05-19 09:00 +0200
  Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 09:30 +0200
  Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-05-19 12:40 +0200
    Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-05-19 19:20 +0200
      Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-05-19 20:00 +0200

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