Brad Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, i found the problem. i'm not surprised nobody suggested it, because > it was so blazingly obvious... i changed the permissions on /tmp to 777, > and it works fine. so now i guess what i want to know is, what are the > default permissions on /tmp? i don't remember ever changing them.
It might have been the system. There was a brief problem with base-files which would cause the base directories to get installed with the wrong permissions. Here's the correct tmp permissions: 504$ ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 1024 Jun 9 21:11 /tmp/ And you can reset them to this with (as root): chown root.root /tmp chmod u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rwxt /tmp -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
