Re: man permissions
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On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> >
> > After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users:
> >
> > > man bash
> > man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory
> >
> > The permissions on /tmp were:
> > drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp
> >
> > so I changed them to:
> > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:51 tmp
> >
> > This fixes it anyway. Is this okay?
>
> Yes, it's OK.
>
> What's not OK is that the permissions were wrong in the
> first place. Something strange must have happened on your system, as
> I don't remember seeing floods of messages like this on debian-user.
>
> Do you remember anything interesting about your install? Anything
> that could have triggered this?
This is frequently a relic of unpacking archives directly into /tmp. This
may inadvertantly change the permissions of the directory, causing the
problems observed. Doing dpkg -x pkgname /tmp would do that. Create a
temporary directory to unpack the archive into.
- --
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