Mario Fabiano wrote: >Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > >> I'm using relatively current hamm. >> All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 >> That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files >> are owned by user/group 1000/1000). >> But that doesn't explain the mysterious change of ownership/permission of >> /tmp. I've changed all incorrect files from dpkg/dpkg-dev to root.root >> Shortly after /tmp went back to permission 755 but now without change in >> ownership. All of this is really weird. >> >> Has anybody else experienced this? >> Also - how can track down the process that changes /tmp permissions? > >I am using Debian 1.3.1, that I have installed only few days ago. >Last friday, meanwhile I was connected to the Net via ppp, the Afterstep WM >crashed. No way to restart it. >Afterstep writes some kind of information into /tmp. Only some time after I >realized that the permissions of /tmp were no longer: > drwxrwxrwt > >but: > drwxr-xr-x > >and Afterstep was no longer able to write into that directory. > >I have no idea about who or what could have changed the permissions.
It sounds as if /tmp was deleted and recreated, rather than that its permissions were changed; that would explain the change in ownership and permissions; the directory has the ownership of its creator and the permissions dictated by the owner's standard umask. I can't identify the culprit, though... -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
