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Re: man permissions



> 
> 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?

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/


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