Re: afterstep

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Brad Bell <maximill@u.washington.edu> writes:

> well, i found the problem.  i'm not surprised nobody suggested it, because
> it was so blazingly obvious...  i changed the permissions on /tmp to 777,
> and it works fine.  so now i guess what i want to know is, what are the
> default permissions on /tmp?  i don't remember ever changing them.

It might have been the system.  There was a brief problem with
base-files which would cause the base directories to get installed
with the wrong permissions.

Here's the correct tmp permissions:

504$ ls -ld /tmp/
drwxrwxrwt   3 root     root         1024 Jun  9 21:11 /tmp/

And you can reset them to this with (as root):

  chown root.root /tmp
  chmod u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rwxt /tmp

-- 
Rob


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