Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?
> About once every 6-8 weeks my /tmp permissions get set to 755. Does
> anyone know what causes this?
Happens here all the time. I just before I did "man <something>"
and was told (as a user, not root) it couldn't create a temporary
file. Permissions, especially on /tmp, seem to be the first
thing to suffer for me if the machine is rebooted uncleanly.
hamish
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Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Linux always runs in over commited mode. Pages are only used if a program is
> writing to it. And yes, this may crash the System if is trashing cause of
> fullswap.
This might explain some strange problems I've been having. Is there a
way to to turn this off?
... Ami.
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