> 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 >>> -- >>> Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? >>> -- >>> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support >>> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >>> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >>> >>> Do not top post on this list. >>> >>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. >>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >>> A: Top-posting. >>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style >> >> 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 11:38 AM Bud Rozwood <[email protected]> wrote: Bruce, I checked those files and they seem fine to me, nothing weird. And everything seems to be booting fine. ---- Sorry for top-posting.
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