man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > man bash man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory The permissions on /tmp were: drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp so I changed them to: drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
> > After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > > > man bash > man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory > > The permissions on /tmp were: > drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp > > so I changed them to: > drwxrwxrwt 2 root

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote > After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > > > man bash > man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory > > The permissions on /tmp were: > drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp > > so I changed them to: > drwxrwxrwt

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > > > > > man bash > > man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory > > > > The permissions on /tmp were: > > drwxr-xr-t

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, (diffidently), pardon me, but should the tar at the end of the pipe not have -p, as in tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpsSWU -) --^ which may have preserved permissions? (I threw in the other options which I like). manoj -- Don't

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > (diffidently), pardon me, but should the tar at the end of the > pipe not have -p, as in > tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpsSWU -) > --^ > which may have preserved permissions? (I threw in the other > options which I li