Re: pine producing gratuitous folder locks
David C. Winters wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, David C. Winters wrote:
> > > Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began
> [Del.]
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
> > Are the permissions on the /tmp directory correct? (1755, which looks
> > like drwxrwxrwt in ls -l /) This is often my first clue that /tmp has the
> > wrong perms.
>
> That was it--my clue was when X didn't start either. Now I need to try to
> track down whatever it was I did that changed its perms.
I've had similar problems (perms changing) after restoring from a backup
as root. I've read elsewhere that if you set umask to 0 before
restoring that this problem can be avoided. I'd be interested in
knowing if this is what happened to you.
> I posted my
> question too soon--sorry, everyone, for the wasted bandwidth.
>
> D.
>
> David winters+@cs.cmu.edu If the Force with Yoda is so strong, construct
> Office: 3503 WeH, x86720 a sentence with in the proper order the words
> MTFBWY then why can't he?
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