Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:27:26 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: imsleepy <imsleepy@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pine error - pine starts readonly Message-ID: <19991005192726.D460@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042212380.1221-100000@muffin.fshcrkr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042159470.1084-100000@muffin.fshcrkr.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042212380.1221-100000@muffin.fshcrkr.com>
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imsleepy wrote:
> /tmp kept getting big, so i changed /tmp to a symlink to /var/tmp, and i
> guess it got root permissions, so pine couldn't use it or something. for
> the time being i did 'chmod a+rw /tmp' and 'chmod a+rw /var/tmp'. is that
> correct? im not really fond of having some gapeing hole in on my computer
> because of me not setting the attributes correctly. also, what
> permissions should /var have? thanks and sorry
/tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/tmp, and any other system-wide temporary
directories should be mode 1777. /var itself should be 755. Note if
/tmp is a symlink its permissions are irrelevant, it's the target's
permissions which count.
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