Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:35:08 -0500 From: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mberg?= <tstromberg@rtci.com> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proper permissons on /tmp Message-ID: <3A1436EC.9E2A770@rtci.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011160650180.41866-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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Leif Neland wrote: > > Something keeps changing permissions on /tmp to 755, which causes pine to > claim the mailbox is in use by another process. > This change has occurred a couple of times lately, but I haven't found a > pattern. > When I reset the perms to 777, pine works normal again. > What is the proper perms on /tmp? > > Leif > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message I ran into the same thing a lot on our main intranet server (Solaris 7).. what it ended up being was pretty simple. I used to compile most of my stuff in /tmp (now I do it in ~/compiling), and sometimes do the bad thing (relative paths.. enough said) of extracting stuff as root in /tmp. Some tarfiles would then extract into . and reset the permissions of . - for instance, McAfee for UNIX virus updates. The permissions would get reset to 755. And of course, I'd get tons of user complaints that things were messing up for them (for instance, uw-imap). Just wanted to share one possible explanation.. this sure had us fooled for a few weeks. -- #---------------------------------------------------------------------# name> thomas r. stromberg work> tstromberg@rtci.com pos> senior systems administrator home> thomas@stromberg.org corp> research triangle commerce (icc.net) web> http://chaotical.ly/ #---------------------------------------------------------------------# earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet -- william s. burroughs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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