On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 01:09:48PM +0100, Mario Fabiano wrote: > Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > 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. I also > carefully looked to tcp daemons logs, but did not find anything strange.
If you extract a tar archive into /tmp itself (and not a subdirectory), the permissions may well change. The tar archive contains an entry for the root directory of the archive, including permissions for it, so your /tmp inherits those permissions. Make a subdirectory and extract into there. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .