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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: I've Created a Permission Problem which Baffles Me.
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Martin McCormick wrote:

>On this particular system, the /var and /var/tmp directories certainly
>look like they do on other FreeBSD systems that don't have this
>problem.
>
>Script started on Tue Sep 13 15:36:59 2005
>bash-2.05b$ cd /
>bash-2.05b$ ls -ld var
>drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  512 Aug 31 14:44 var
>bash-2.05b$ ls -ld /var/tmp
>drwxrwxrwT  3 root  wheel  512 Nov 11  2004 /var/tmp
>  
>
Looks to me like you've taken away x bit for other (otherwise the t 
would be lower case).  x permission on directories allows you to search 
that directory.

Try chmod o+x /var/tmp (as root).

--Alex