Thomas,

You might have something there. I am using Slackware's package manager
which in my SlackBuild scripts, I am using the /tmp directory to untar and
do work in. In fact, today it retained permissions consistently (I
restarted once and then again to double check), so maybe it was a
coincidence that it kept changing permissions since I was installing
packages there?

What would be the correct way of untarring in /tmp ? Or should I create a
folder in /tmp/build and build and install there? All I'm doing is mkdir -v
<new dir name> && tar -xvf <source> -C <new dir name> --strip-components 1,
for most of my scripts.

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 5:40 AM Thomas Seeling <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> >> For some reason my /tmp directory keeps resetting to 0755
>
> a typical reason for this problem is unpacking an archive file in /tmp
> which contains the "." current directory. tar will happily reset the
> permissions and destroy the 1777 setting.
>
> For exactly this reason I try to avoid creating archives with commands
> like "tar cf file.tar ." and always enumerate specific filenames and
> directory names.
>
> Hunting this down might be fun. A q&d solution would be to add a S99
> startup file which resets directory permissions ;)
>
> Tschau...Thomas
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