On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > After I change it, I also had to remove /tmp/.X11-unix* and restart xfs > server. > > xfs creates a /tmp/.font-unix, owned by xfs. > Yes, I always consider it a very bad bug that xfs doesn't even tell you what is the problem. I've had it a few times, although I never found out how the sticky bit of tmp dissappeared.
Perhaps a start up script can check the temp permissions. I will see if I have time to patch. Or are there people who like /tmp to be non-sticky? In that case the script should only give a warning? WDYT? Danny
