From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jul 27 04:45:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA03165 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 04:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA03160 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 04:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA21546; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:44:59 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA27417; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:44:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA28976; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:15:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607270915.LAA28976@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5 To: hbarker@firepower.com (Harold Barker) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:15:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607261751.KAA20404@freespeech.firepower.com> from Harold Barker at "Jul 26, 96 10:51:38 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Harold Barker wrote: > ls of /usr/tmp > drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Jul 25 17:38 tmp /usr/tmp is not supposed to be writeable, it's not even supposed to exist at all. I think the installation utility sometimes choses it as the default place for something. If you don't need them any longer, you can probably remove it. Perhaps sysinstall should offer this as an option once the information went through successfully. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)