From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 13:29:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B05156A3 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:28:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11YZJ8-0004VU-00; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 19:27:26 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11YZJ8-0000FY-00; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 19:27:26 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:27:26 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: imsleepy Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pine error - pine starts readonly Message-ID: <19991005192726.D460@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message