Re: Essential Debian - /tmp permissions wrong? PROBLEM

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "Andrew" == Andrew Martin Adrian Cater <amacater@galactic.debian.org> writes:

Andrew> On ED /tmp has permissions of 755 so nothing can write temp files.

Either that, or you untar'ed some archive as root into /tmp that had
the . directory in it.

One should always untar in a subdirectory of /tmp.

Andrew> Solution: chmod 1777 /tmp

Andrew> Hope this helps somebody

I think Dale Scheetz reads debian-user, but you may want to contact
him directly, if it is not an error as described above. Dale Scheetz
<dwarf@polaris.net> 

Ciao,
	Martin