Did you change permission of directory? Especially tmp directory. Osamu my root is:
total 65 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Mar 28 21:07 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Mar 28 21:07 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 19 03:13 bin drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Mar 25 18:03 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 07:24 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 20480 Mar 31 06:29 dev drwxr-xr-x 68 root root 4096 Mar 29 23:10 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 07:24 floppy drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff 4096 Mar 25 22:11 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 07:24 initrd drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:42 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Feb 18 21:28 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Mar 24 08:57 mnt dr-xr-xr-x 65 root root 0 Mar 28 20:31 proc drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Mar 26 15:55 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Feb 18 22:28 sbin drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 1024 Mar 31 21:05 tmp drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Feb 18 22:15 usr drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:19 var lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 25 18:03 vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17-gw lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Feb 19 03:36 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 and my /var is: total 77 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:19 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Mar 28 21:07 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 26 06:27 backups drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:44 cache drwxrwx--- 7 root src 4096 Mar 28 13:38 cvs drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 25 21:32 lib drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 May 27 2000 local drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:29 lock drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:29 log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Feb 18 21:31 lost+found drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Mar 31 12:18 mail drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:25 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 21:05 samba drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 15 22:21 spool drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 18 22:15 state drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Mar 29 20:43 tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 19 11:45 www On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:54:14AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > Dear fellow Linux'ers, > > I have an off-topic question: > > Since I did a system upgrade on my Debian/x86 box, I cannot use the > 'man' command no longer. I get the message: > > myhost# man ls > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied > myhost# > > Any idea what I can do? > > Thanx for your time. > > -- > Guenter Millahn > > "The real world is still far away from be led ad absurdum by the virtual > one." (Hal Faber, newsreel "What happened, what will be", 08/13/2000) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- `~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ ~\^-^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^_^/~' Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D
