Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Debian User wrote:
> I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small.
>
> umount /tmp ; mv tmp tmp2 ; rewrite /tmp to /tmp2 in /etc/fstab
> mkdir /usr/tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ; chown 777 /usr/tmp ; chown 777 /tmp
> chmod root:sys /usr/tmp
Well, swapping chown <-> chmod in what you wrote, you're pretty close.
The permissions _should_ be 1777, not just 777.
Damian Menscher
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