[CC'ing tar maintainer as a courtesy] On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:51:44PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > After upgrading my potato box from a 12/31/99 mirror I found the > permissions on /tmp were drwxr-xr-x . This prevented gnus from > writing a temporarya file when it tied to send mail. I'm sure I > didn't change them manually. I have reset them to drwxrwxrwt, which > stops the problem. > > Just a heads-up to check the permissions on /tmp after upgrading. > I don't know which package caused this. You didn't happen to untar anything in /tmp, did you? I've noticed by way of dpkg-source -x that the perms of the "." directory in a tarfile clobber the ones on the actual current directory. Yes, this is a bug IMO, but I don't know if it has been reported. -- G. Branden Robinson | You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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