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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:45:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Dennis B <dcswest@about.com>
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Subject: Re: /tmp symlink or mfs option causing permission conflicts?
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What I've done is create a directory, /tmp, and mount that as MFS.  I then
make sure the permissions are 7777 (that last seven is there for the
sticky bit).  That works for me in Gnome and just about everything else.

Joe Clarke

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Dennis B wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> Regarding the instructions for "creating a
> directory /usr/tmp and
> creating a link to it" and "to mount an MFS RAM
> disk on /tmp, add the
> following line to /etc/fstab and then reboot or
> type mount /tmp:"
> in "The Complete FreeBSD" book on pages 88 and
> 348 respectively, does
> anyone know if some combination of that's causing
> permission
> conflicts in Gnome anyway?  It doesn't seem to
> allow any file access
> through Gnome's file manager except as root,
> otherwise giving
> error message like "cannot create temporary
> command file!"
>
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