Re: Permissions for /tmp
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> c) some other program you installed (from source or tar ball) has changed it.
i accidentally did that once. Most tar filed i've come across create a
single directory for all the files contained, but this one didn't. It did
change the permissions on '.', however. i was wondering how X managed to
break for users and not root, until i noticed the error message and
realized that tmp's permissions got changed when that untarred...
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