Re: mounting /tmp
I tried that, and it did the trick. Thanx!
I had assumed (obviously incorrectly) that the permissions on whatever
directory it was being mounted to determined that.
On 17 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
> haphazard@socketis.net (Greg Norris) writes:
>
> > I'm trying to mount a filesystem (ext2) as /tmp, and am experiencing
> > what I assume to be problems with the permissions. For example, when I
> > type "man bash" (as a normal user) I get the message:
> >
> > bash: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory
>
> After mounting /tmp, do a "chmod 1777 /tmp". The permissions on /tmp
> must allow world writes, and when you mount a new volume, the
> permissions on its root directory get used.
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