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Date:      Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:04:39 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, ru@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: buildworld broken for non-root users 
Message-ID:  <50197.983804679@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:59:04 %2B0100." <20010305155904.A75943@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> 

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:59:04 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:

> > I have a feeling that this has been happening since groff was upgraded
> > in -STABLE.  refer(1) is using /var/tmp as its temporary directory.
> > Non-priveleged users may not create files in this directory.
> 
> Since when? I think I missed that change:
> 
> [stijn@pcwin002] <~> ls -ld /var/tmp
> drwxrwxrwt  5 root  wheel  512 Mar  5 15:41 /var/tmp

Ahhhh, that's it!

Geez, I wonder how I screwed up permissions on /var/tmp...

Thanks,
Sheldon.

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