On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:36:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2007 16:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Argh!! > > > > thanks for your patience. can it be old age? ;o) at any rate: it happens, eh? > > kloro@debian:/$ ls -ld /var > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 2005-12-19 03:45 /var/ > kloro@debian:/$ ls -l /var > total 11 > drwxr-xr-x 2 kloro root 768 2007-08-29 06:38 backups/ > drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 528 2007-02-16 11:38 cache/ > drwxr-xr-x 3 kloro root 3800 2007-01-12 14:49 games/ > drwxr-xr-x 61 kloro root 1576 2007-09-25 10:49 lib/ > drwxrwsr-x 2 kloro staff 48 2004-12-15 14:55 local/ > drwxrwxrwt 4 kloro root 96 2007-10-30 10:47 lock/ > drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 2960 2007-10-30 10:47 log/ > drwxrwsr-x 2 kloro mail 144 2007-10-30 12:08 mail/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 kloro root 48 2005-12-19 02:57 opt/ > drwxr-xr-x 18 kloro root 1080 2007-10-30 10:48 run/ > drwxr-xr-x 12 kloro root 328 2007-05-26 14:21 spool/ > drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 264 2007-10-30 11:02 tmp/ > drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 1696 2007-07-26 15:34 www/ the rest of /var should be owned by root as well. andrew@delappy:~$ ls -l /var total 64 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-25 18:51 backups drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2007-10-25 21:17 cache drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-08-07 17:55 games drwxr-xr-x 46 root root 4096 2007-10-27 09:29 lib drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 2007-04-24 04:56 local drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:33 lock drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:34 log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 2007-08-06 08:43 lost+found drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2007-08-25 20:55 mail drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-06 16:30 opt drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:35 run drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-04-24 04:56 spool drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:34 tmp and I don't have anything in /var/tmp andrew@delappy:~$ ls -l /var/tmp total 0 to compare to. > > after doing 'sudo chown -R root /var/tmp', i get: > > kloro@debian:/$ ls -l /var/tmp > total 0 > drwx------ 8 root kloro 256 2007-10-29 17:53 kdecache-kloro/ > drwx------ 3 kloro kloro 128 2007-10-30 11:04 kdecache-kloro7k3iRa/ > drwx------ 5 root root 176 2006-01-29 16:10 kdecache-root/ > drwx------ 4 root root 152 2007-10-02 17:11 kdecache-rootcohchy/ > drwx------ 6 root root 200 2007-02-03 13:52 kdecache-rootKvAh16/ > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2005-12-19 02:58 vi.recover/ > kloro@debian:/$ > > but firefox still won't save stuff unless i start it with 'sudo'. if you look at the perms of vi.recover/ you'll see that it has the same perms as its parent. I think that should be the case for all those. Seeing as that's a tmp dir though, what *I* would do at this point is log out and shutdown kde. then mv all those directories somewhere else for now, leaving just an empty /var/tmp and then reboot. If it bombs, you can move all those things back. Its a tmp directory, so you should be able to do that and have kde recreate whatever it needs there. hth A
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