I wrote > After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > > > man bash > man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory > > The permissions on /tmp were: > drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp > > so I changed them to: > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:51 tmp > > This fixes it anyway. Is this okay?
joost witteveen wrote: > What's not OK is that the permissions were wrong in the > first place. > Do you remember anything interesting about your install? Anything > that could have triggered this? I used deslect to install, so that was plain. But the installation was a tar torture test because I installed to /dev/sda5, then copy it over to /dev/sda7 tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvf -) then copied to a new temporary primary partition /dev/sda2 so I could change the boundaries on the extended partition. When I was happy with the end of the disk, I then I copied Debian over to the new logical partition. I fixed my primaries like I wanted and copied Debian a last time to /dev/sda3. It booted at every one of these stages (just edit fstab and run lilo in preparation, ot rdev a kernel on a floppy). So I ran this tar copy 4 times... Still, that *should* not be a problem. "Scott K. Ellis" wrote: > This is frequently a relic of unpacking archives directly into /tmp. This > may inadvertantly change the permissions of the directory, causing the > problems observed. Doing dpkg -x pkgname /tmp would do that. Create a > temporary directory to unpack the archive into. I used dselect to install, so... I dunno. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
