Re: /tmp trouble

["Michael B. Taylor" <mtaylor@vorticity.engr.utk.edu>]

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:33:56AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:34:51PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote:
> >  I just wanted to experiment with partitions. So, created a 30 MB
> >  partition, and modified /etc/fstab as
> >    /dev/hda7   /tmp   ext2    defaults 0 0
> > 
> >    And rebooted. Now, mutt, lynx et al couldn't create tmp files, and won't
> >    budge. What's wrong? I had to revert back, to put /tmp under / partition.
> >    What's wrong with my setting? Help.
> 
> just a stupid idea, but did you create a filesystem on that new
> partition like with: "mke2fs /dev/hda7" ?
> 
This may be a permissions problem. /tmp should be 777 with the sticky bit
set, to keep userx from deleting usery's files.

chmod 1777 /tmp

Mike