From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 10: 8:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5377637B405 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmyster.com (dsl-006.sacoriver.net [65.162.190.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6B943ED8 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:08:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from misterb@bmyster.com) Received: from bmyster.com (www@dsl-006.sacoriver.net [65.162.190.7]) by bmyster.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id h07IPg11021378; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:27:05 -0500 (EST) From: Brent Bailey Received: from 207.5.169.163 (SquirrelMail authenticated user misterb) by bmyster.com with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:27:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1248.207.5.169.163.1041964025.squirrel@bmyster.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:27:05 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: permissions issue help ?!?! To: In-Reply-To: <20030107185219.5ce59092.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <1238.207.5.169.163.1041962590.squirrel@bmyster.com> <20030107185219.5ce59092.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Awesome....thanx for your help... i have one other one for ya ...if your up to it .. for whatever reason ...a file that was in the /tmp dir is missing its a file that mysql used called "mysql.sock=" it had permissions like srwxrwxrwx mysql wheel mysql.sock= any thoughts ?? Im sure i need this for mysql to work...i would hate to have to reinstall mysql,,,Thanx again for you help, Brent > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:03:10 -0500 (EST) > Brent Bailey wrote: > > Hi, > > >> I have another FBSD box thats working fine ..and the permissions on >> its/tmp dir are:drwxrwxrwt root wheel /tmp >> >> now to restore the permissions on the broken box ..i did >> #chmod 777 /tmp > > What you want is chmod 1777 /tmp > >> however im not sure how to get the "t" on the permissions back (im >> not even sure what the "t" means) > > t is the sticky bit, it means that files and directories created inside > /tmp are owned by whoever creates them. See man 8 sticky for detailed > info. > > Cheers, > -- > Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net > GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt > EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk > Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message