Merging Partitions - forgot to preserve permissions

Hello Archers,
Recently I was merging some partitions on my drive, and stupidly forgot to preserve the permissions when using cp. It seems that all files are now owned by root 755. I have fixed my home directory permissions, but it seems there are a whole bunch of other directories/files on system that need to have different ownership and are screwing things up (/tmp and /var/log for example) is there some sort of list of proper file permissions for arch? or some way to set these back to the way they are supposed to be? I can't even start X because of these permission problems(it works fine on root).
Thanks for any help,
Perogy

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