Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to:
2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with: # chmod 777 /tmp # chmod a+t /tmp Now, it seems alright, but I'm not sure about the rest (most of all /var). Could anyone check against his/her filesystem, please? (also, anyone has an idea why it may have changed? All I've done is untar/ungzip 'ed a file in /tmp as a normal user; then, I've removed all the files, but it kept asking me if I wanted to delete the file "substitutin such or such mode"). Now it looks like: 1 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 ./ 1 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 ../ 1 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Nov 18 20:17 alt/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 19 02:45 amnt/ 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Nov 14 16:52 bin/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 18 20:12 boot/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom 1024 Feb 1 1999 cdrom/ 18 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 17408 Nov 19 02:45 dev/ 5 drwxr-xr-x 57 root root 5120 Nov 19 02:45 etc/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 2 root floppy 1024 Feb 1 1999 floppy/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 1024 Nov 10 00:30 home/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 initrd/ 3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3072 Nov 14 21:30 lib/ 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Nov 9 00:41 lost+found/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 mnt/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Nov 17 18:28 opt/ 0 dr-xr-xr-x 31 root root 0 Nov 19 02:45 proc/ 1 drwx------ 7 root root 1024 Nov 17 23:35 root/ 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 16 14:43 sbin/ 2 drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:59 tmp/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Nov 17 13:06 usr/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Nov 14 16:50 var/ 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 9 01:17 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 zip/ TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6