Re: some questions

[Patrick Barrett <yebyen@nerdland.org>]

* Paolo Alexis Falcone (fallenlordx@edsamail.com.ph) wrote:
> 1.) I partitioned my disk in this scheme: / - 80 MB XFS, /home - 2GB 
> reiserfs, /var - 1 GB XFS, /usr - 1GB XFS. I prepared another 1 GB XFS
> partition supposedly to migrate /tmp, but everytime I login as a normal
> user the system can't create temporary files. It works fine with root. I
> need a big TEMP space, but if I repartition / to be bigger, there's a
> risk of one time-big time data loss should the partition's filesystem get
> corrupted. How do I make a partition readable and writeable by normal
> users (particularly /tmp)?

You need to do this to your /tmp...
chmod 777 /tmp
chmod +t /tmp

This sets the proper settings for a /tmp... so only a user can delete
their own files, and so on.  I'm pretty sure thats the correct setting.

> 2.) GNOME-terminal has a colored scheme by default (blue for directories,
> green for executables, sky blue for symlinks, etc...). How do I enable
> such in a normal terminal without logging to X (like the colored terminals
> used by distros such as RedHat or Mandrake)?

put something like this in your .bash_profile (or whatever runs at the
beginning of your shell sessions):
alias ls="ls --color=auto"

This isn't the job of the term, though it needs to support color for
this to work.

Hope this helped.

> Just curious, but any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Paolo Falcone
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Patrick Barrett
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