From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 9:43:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FB237B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmyster.com (dsl-006.sacoriver.net [65.162.190.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A47843E4A for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:43:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from misterb@bmyster.com) Received: from bmyster.com (www@dsl-006.sacoriver.net [65.162.190.7]) by bmyster.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id h07I1m11021084 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:03:10 -0500 (EST) From: Brent Bailey Received: from 207.5.169.163 (SquirrelMail authenticated user misterb) by bmyster.com with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:03:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1238.207.5.169.163.1041962590.squirrel@bmyster.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:03:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: permissions issue help ?!?! To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Im using FBSD 4.6 R.... i recently installed something (i dont know what ) that changed the permissions on my /tmp directory.making things like mysql & php and other programs not function correctly. as things are now on the broken box the permissions are: drwx------ root wheel /tmp I have another FBSD box thats working fine ..and the permissions on its /tmp dir are:drwxrwxrwt root wheel /tmp now to restore the permissions on the broken box ..i did #chmod 777 /tmp however im not sure how to get the "t" on the permissions back (im not even sure what the "t" means) Can anyone tell me how to get the permissions back to: drwxrwxrwt root wheel /tmp ??? any and all help is very appreciated.. Thank you in advance... Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message