Bruce,

I checked those files and they seem fine to me, nothing weird. And
everything seems to be booting fine.

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:24 AM Bud Rozwood <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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