On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:57:47PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > OK so I went looking on the net /debian/var to find out why it is running > out of room. All I could find is the directions to delete said files. I > will put them back, now.
Make sure you get the ownership and permissions correct. unicorn:/var$ /bin/ls -ld */ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 22 06:25 backups/ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 31 2022 cache/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 2018 games/ drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 4096 Jul 31 2022 lib/ drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Nov 19 2017 local/ drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 80 Mar 25 16:03 lock/ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Apr 24 08:12 log/ drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Oct 28 2021 mail/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 2018 opt/ drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 4096 Jan 12 2018 qmail/ drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 760 Mar 27 15:39 run/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 29 2021 spool/ drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Apr 28 21:02 tmp/ Ignore "qmail" unless you happen to be using qmail, which is unlikely. The rest should look like this. In particular, note the permissions on /var/tmp. That's "chmod 1777" to get the sticky bit.
