On 16 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > I sometimes have the problem that the permissions of /tmp has changed > (while booting?). From the normal rwxrwxrwt they change to rwxr-xr-x. > Does anyone has an idea what is causing this? > > /tmp has an own partition and is mounted while booting using mount -a > if this is important.
When mounting a partition, the permissions are changed to the root of the mounted filesystem. e.g. when I mount an e2fs zip disk, the permissions are on the disk, not the mount point. Some buggy debian packages used to cause this problem, but I haven't seen that in a while. Good luck, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .