Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hmm. after putting my new pieces together, i've lost write permissions
> in /tmp
>
> lyx can't create its temporary directory, emacs sometimes gets a
> permission denied to make /tmp/emacsaaaa when sending mail, and exmh
> has similar problems:
>
> error while autoloading "Cache_Init": can't create directory
> "/tmp/.webtkcache": permission denied
> while executing
>
> gee, I have lots of questions this week :)
Of course you can regenerate the permissions:
chmod 1777 /tmp
The reason for such changes is the unpacking of tar files while the
current directory is /tmp. If the tar archive contains an entry for
the current directory (.) it will change the permissions of /tmp to
those of this . file in the archive. Normally this permissions will
be something like 755 and your /tmp directory is corrupted.
The solution: create a subdirectory beneath /tmp and change into it
before unpacking.
Torsten
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