> About once every 6-8 weeks my /tmp permissions get set to 755. Does > anyone know what causes this?
Happens here all the time. I just before I did "man <something>" and was told (as a user, not root) it couldn't create a temporary file. Permissions, especially on /tmp, seem to be the first thing to suffer for me if the machine is rebooted uncleanly. hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 1996 14:34:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 18454 invoked from network); 5 Dec 1996 14:18:33 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 1996 14:17:06 -0000 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:17:52 -0500 From: Ami Ganguli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ganguli Consulting Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Swap overdraft ? References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"81ZGb.0.ms1.Tpjfo"@master.debian.org> Resent-From: [email protected] Resent-Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/803 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Linux always runs in over commited mode. Pages are only used if a program is > writing to it. And yes, this may crash the System if is trashing cause of > fullswap. This might explain some strange problems I've been having. Is there a way to to turn this off? ... Ami. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
