I tried that, and it did the trick. Thanx! I had assumed (obviously incorrectly) that the permissions on whatever directory it was being mounted to determined that.
On 17 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: > > > I'm trying to mount a filesystem (ext2) as /tmp, and am experiencing > > what I assume to be problems with the permissions. For example, when I > > type "man bash" (as a normal user) I get the message: > > > > bash: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory > > After mounting /tmp, do a "chmod 1777 /tmp". The permissions on /tmp > must allow world writes, and when you mount a new volume, the > permissions on its root directory get used. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
