Re: no write permissions for /tmp

[Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>]

Bob asked,

> Did you perhaps restore from backup?  If for example you use
> tar, permissions on files created (including /tmp) are
> affected by umask.  Root's default umask is 022 which blocks
> out write permission for group and others.  Two ways to
> avoid this are: set umask to zero before restoring or use
> the -p option on tar.

While inside /tmp, I untarred netscape.  could this have done?  /tmp had
permissions of 751, which i've changed to 1777 which seems to help. hmm,
and theowners and group were 888 and 999, which i've changed back to
root.

rick


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