Re: Wrong permissions for /tmp ?

2006-06-08 Thread Lothar Braun
On Friday 09 June 2006 00:12, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Hi, > > I was cheating around and I am afraid I changed permissions to /tmp, they > are: > > drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 528 2006-06-09 00:16 /tmp/ These are the default permissons for /tmp. So they should be ok :) Lothar -- http://const-cast.b

Wrong permissions for /tmp ?

2006-06-08 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, I was cheating around and I am afraid I changed permissions to /tmp, they are: drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 528 2006-06-09 00:16 /tmp/ is that ok? Thnx PAolo -- if you have a minute to spend please visit my photogrphy site: http://mypic.co.nr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

wrong permissions for /tmp/.X11-unix

2002-03-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The last few times I booted my PowerBook, I couldn't start X because of the following error: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership (not root:root), aborting. I can fix the permissions manually, but why are the permissions wrong? How can I fix this permanently? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL

Re: permissions for /tmp

1999-09-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 06:59:12PM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > > Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need > the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and > now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks! > > Marshal > T

RE: permissions for /tmp

1999-09-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Sep-99 Marshal Wong wrote: > > Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need > the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and > now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks! > Here ya go. root Description: Binary data

permissions for /tmp

1999-09-09 Thread Marshal Wong
Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks! Marshal

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Tue, 25 May, 1999 à 11:51:00PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > >On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: > >The sticky bit (chmod +t) on a directory just makes it so that anyone can > wr > >ite > >to that directory but not modify files they did not make. > > Not qu

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Brad
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > c) some other program you installed (from source or tar ball) has changed it. i accidentally did that once. Most tar filed i've come across create a single directory for all the files contained, but this one didn't. It did change the permissions on '.', h

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
Pollywog wrote: > >On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: >> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: >> >>> Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. >> >> I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have >> something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created,

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
valent but I believe someone gave it in a > previous post. I believe I was wrong. Try chmod 1777 as suggested earlier by Ben Collins. That will give you the correct permissions for /tmp -- Andrew

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 moron wrote: > > > Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is the sticky bit? Sounds disgusting >:<) > > David chmod +t I don't recall the numeric equivalent but I believe someone gave it in a previous post. -- Andrew

RE: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. > > I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have > something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I > way off here? The sticky bit

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread moron
>On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:32:36PM +0200, moron wrote: >> I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot >> use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing >> permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried >> creating a

sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread scratch
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I way off here? Thanks, -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::---

RE: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 moron wrote: > I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot > use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing > permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried > creating a /tmp directory in my home directory

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:32:36PM +0200, moron wrote: > I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot > use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing > permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried > creating a /tmp di

Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread moron
I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried creating a /tmp directory in my home directory but it didn't work.) It makes me

Re: no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
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/emacs when sending mail, and exmh > has similar problems: > > er

Re: no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
Bob asked, > Did you perhaps restore from backup? If for example you use > tar, permissions on files created (including /tmp) are > affected by umask. Root's default umask is 022 which blocks > out write permission for group and others. Two ways to > avoid this are: set umask to zero before res

Re: no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-19 Thread Bob Clark
Did you perhaps restore from backup? If for example you use tar, permissions on files created (including /tmp) are affected by umask. Root's default umask is 022 which blocks out write permission for group and others. Two ways to avoid this are: set umask to zero before restoring or use the -p o

no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
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/emacs when sending mail, and exmh has similar problems: error while autoloading "Cache_Init": can't create director

Re: Wrong permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp?

1996-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm sorry, that was fixed in a later upload that seems to have not made it to your mirror. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Wrong permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp?

1996-12-05 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
Dear all, Just installed rex and found that the /tmp and /var/tmp directories do not have write permission for others. Are they supposed to be used by all? -- Billy C.-M. Chow Department of Systems Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]