From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 9: 0:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 09:00:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163C937B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8EB9317422; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:00:41 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:00:41 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Corey Brune Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird /tmp issues Message-ID: <20001208110041.A327@northernbrewer.com> References: <20001208101547.A328@northernbrewer.com> <200012081625.eB8GPPQ01779@sdf.lonestar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012081625.eB8GPPQ01779@sdf.lonestar.org>; from brune@sdf.lonestar.org on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:25:24PM +0000 Sender: chris@nbrewer.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Corey Brune (brune@sdf.lonestar.org) wrote: > /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. Strange, but it doesn't! The only thing that restores X11 functionality is copying the old tmp directory back. This doesn't make any sense to me -- if /tmp were swap, wouldn't it get cleared at each reboot? Isn't that a common configuration? -- 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