From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 5 7: 5:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D73D37B718; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 07:05:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14ZwXt-0006hZ-00; Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:05:09 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id RAA00925; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:05:08 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 791; Mon Mar 5 17:04:40 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14ZwXP-000D3h-00; Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:04:39 +0200 To: Stijn Hoop Cc: stable@freebsd.org, ru@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld broken for non-root users In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:59:04 +0100." <20010305155904.A75943@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:04:39 +0200 Message-ID: <50197.983804679@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message