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From: Jia-Huang Chen <jiachen@cs.indiana.edu>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Mergemaster 
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> On Wed, 06 Oct 1999 02:44:31 EST, Jia-Huang Chen wrote:
> 
> > *** The directory specified for the temporary root environment,
> >     /var/tmp/temproot, exists. This can be a security risk if untrusted
> >     users have access to the system.
> > 
> >   Use 'd' to delete the old /var/tmp/temproot and continue
> >   Use 't' to select a new temporary root directory
> >   Use 'e' to exit mergemaster
> 
> If I were you, I'd choose 'd' here.
> 
> >   *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to the
> >       temproot environment
> 
> If choosing 'd' to delete /var/tmp/temproot doesn't help, check the
> permissions on your /usr/src/etc and /var/tmp directories.

I tried and unfortunately it still doesn's work.  They are the permissions
of my directories.  Anything wrong ?  Thanks,

Jia
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[root@russell-paul:/var/tmp] # ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxrwt   4 root  wheel  512 Oct  6 12:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel  512 Oct  4 18:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct  6 12:50 temproot
drwxrwxrwt   2 root  wheel  512 Sep 28 23:09 vi.recover


[root@nugget:/usr/src] # ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel   512 Oct  6 01:36 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel   512 Oct  5 00:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Oct  6 01:36 etc
drwxr-xr-x  39 root  wheel  1024 Oct  4 18:25 sys
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