snarlydwarf;212809 Wrote: > 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.)
Thanks for that, and for the explanation. I made those changes but the problem persists (and I believe '/tmp' already had the correct permissions after all, since the 'ls' output didn't change). So I guess it's not a permissions problem! > 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.) It's the partition -- all the partitions were set up for me by installing 'FreeLink' (http://www.linkstationwiki.net/index.php/FreeLink_for_the_Linkstation_Pro), which replaces the LS Pro's firmware and installs a Debian distribution. Space is tight on the primary partition, and I didn't re-partition after installing (although now I wish I had!) -- I just moved large libraries into a partial mirror on the big data partition and linked to them from the directories in /var, /usr and so on. Here's what 'df' says: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 10M 224K 9.8M 3% /tmp Might that be in RAM, and not on the disk at all? I'm wondering whether I might be able to point /tmp at a location somewhere on the big data partition. I'll give that a whirl later (although if I can't do it while the system is running, I may need to wait a bit). Thanks for your help! -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36623 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
