On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > I'm using relatively current hamm. > All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 > That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files > are owned by user/group 1000/1000). > But that doesn't explain the mysterious change of ownership/permission of > /tmp. I've changed all incorrect files from dpkg/dpkg-dev to root.root > Shortly after /tmp went back to permission 755 but now without change in > ownership. All of this is really weird. > > Has anybody else experienced this? > Also - how can track down the process that changes /tmp permissions?
You did "dpkg -x dpkg.deb /tmp" didn't you? That's what broke your /tmp permissions, you need to make a subdirectory to extract into, the root of the directory you extract the package into has its permissions changed. This is "not a bug but a feature" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .