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Re: What changed permissions of /tmp ?



On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> This morning I had a bad surprize on my sarge system: X did not start
> any more. After some time I've found the culprit: something had changed
> permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x.
> 
> I have no idea what could be the cause of this permission change.
> Has anybody ever seen this?
> 
I have seen this happen previously when I decided to move /tmp to its
own partition and I forgot to change the permissions after mounting the
new partition.  Beyond that, I can't think of what would inadvertently
cause it, except for maybe a badly behaved script.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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