/var permissions ???

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@osfn.org>]

Hi,

I recently moved /var to the partition windoze used to occupy.

To do this (after reformatting the partition):
# mkdir /vartemp
# mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /vartemp
# cp -R /var/* /vartemp

I then set up /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda1 at /var and later wiped the original /var.  It has been a little while so I'm not 100% on exactly what I did.

The problem is that only root can write to /var or any subdirectories.  So users cannot use `man` and there are other miscellaneous errors.

I thought this should work:
drwxr-xr-x  18 root     root         1024 May 10 16:21 var

But it doesn't:
$ man test
Reformatting test(1), please wait...
man: can't create /var/catman/cat1/4071: Permission denied


TIA,
Jon