On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:04:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

> What should permissions on /tmp look like in a normal system?
> I see tmp is chmod 755 but shouldn't it be something like 1777?

It should, but it makes no difference to emerging, which is done as root.
1777 is more secure, it stops one user removing another user's files, but
is not the cause of your problem.

How much free space is on /tmp? What does "df -Th /tmp" show?


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