From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 8:31:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 08:31:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (t3-d-static-237.adsl.directlink.net [63.68.131.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A6B537B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brune@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eB8GPPQ01779; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:25:25 GMT From: Corey Brune Message-Id: <200012081625.eB8GPPQ01779@sdf.lonestar.org> Subject: Re: Weird /tmp issues In-Reply-To: <20001208101547.A328@northernbrewer.com> "from Christopher Farley at Dec 8, 2000 10:15:48 am" To: Christopher Farley Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:25:24 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /tmp should be chmod'ed with 1777 for the sticky bit turned on. I am *think* the perms affect X. Try it out and see if this corrects the problem. Hope this helps!! Corey > I have been trying to move /tmp off the / filesystem. This has been > causing some weird X11 problems... > > For example if I > > # mv /tmp /tmp.old > # mkdir tmp > # chmod 777 tmp > # reboot now > > I then have problems running startx! (The screen and keyboard shut > down, forcing me to reboot the system from another system.) > > If I move the old tmp directory back, the problem goes away. > > I assumed /tmp was temporary, and that you should be able to boot with > an empty /tmp no problem. > > Any ideas? > -- > Christopher Farley > Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 > www.northernbrewer.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message