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Re: [SOLVED] man problem, bo



Pann McCuaig <pann@agora.rdrop.com> writes:

> Somehow both permissions and ownership got changed on /tmp.  Oops!

That sometimes happens if I unpack tar files as root in /tmp.  If
there is a . file in the archive tar will set the ownership and
permissions of the /tmp directory the same as this file.

        Torsten

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