smst;212804 Wrote: > > I therefore wonder if I have a permissions problem. I'm quite familiar > with linux but I'm weak on permissions, so would appreciate any advice.
As root: chown root.root /tmp chmod 1777 /tmp That should make /tmp look like (with "ls -ld /tmp"): drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 2007-07-06 09:39 /tmp which is what you want. root owns it, anyone can create files there, but only owner of the file can delete it/modify etc. (that is what the "t" permission does on directories.) > > The slimserver process runs as the user 'slimserver'; if I change to > that user in a shell, I can write to the /tmp directory. The /tmp > directory is in its own partitition with about 10M of space free; could > these searches be generating so much data that the temporary file is > that large? (My library has ~16000 tracks in it, but only 4 artists > would match my "kings" search.) > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. 10M is pretty small for free space on /tmp. I don't know what slimserver/mysql use there, but I get paged by my servers as an emergency if it's less than 30M free. Is the partition that small? Or is there some junky log file or something that could be deleted? I would feel claustrophobic with that little. (And, yes, mysql uses /tmp for making files when it is doing some operations.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36623 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
