Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Lindsay Allen
About once every 6-8 weeks my /tmp permissions get set to 755. Does anyone know what causes this? On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Spineux Alain wrote: A user can't run man ls to correct this, I did chmod a+w /tmp -- Spineux Alain

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes. I fixed this in a later version of the boot-floppies package. Sorry! Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- This message was delayed because the list mail

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I uploaded a bad version of base-files. I have fixed it, but if you upgraded using dselect you might have had your permissions messed up. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6

Re: Rex , /tmp not user writable ?

1996-12-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
About once every 6-8 weeks my /tmp permissions get set to 755. Does anyone know what causes this? Happens here all the time. I just before I did man something and was told (as a user, not root) it couldn't create a temporary file. Permissions, especially on /tmp, seem to be the first thing to