Hi

The question is why is /tmp not writeable

/tmp should have chmod 1777 which means everybody can write
in the folder but only the owner has permissions to his
files. This should be default and security-auditors
like lynis will cry if not so

Am 27.07.2010 01:08, schrieb ferriswheel:
> hello,
> 
> 
> i am using a hosting server for dbmail which runs  ubuntu linux in a 
> vmware virtual environment.
> 
> the '/tmp' folder is not writeable by the dbmail daemons which are owned 
> by the 'dbmail' user account.
> 
> i would appear that tmpfile() from stdio is expecting TMPDIR to be set 
> to a specific directory or '/tmp' will be used.
> 
> i am using dbmail V2.2.26 compiled locally as this version of ubuntu has 
> dbmail V2.2.9 and i am using the ubuntu dbmail init.d script to start 
> and stop dbmail.
> 
> does anyone have suggestions on how i can get TMPDIR set for dbmail or 
> is there another way e.g. have it set a compile time?  \
> 
> TIA
> 
> regards
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