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Re: [SLE] /var properties?
- From: Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:30:18 -0500
- Message-id: <200503071730.19092.paul_tbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 07 March 2005 5:14 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > and I got an error saying it couldn't write to /var/tmp
> > /var was root root dwr-wr---
> > I chmodded it to 777 and now I can print.
> > what should /var file permissions be???
>
> /var should be 0755
> /var/tmp should be 1777 (the sticky bit should be set, just like for
> /tmp)
thanks!
/var/tmp was 1777, but somehow /var had changed, so I couldn't ( as a
user) write to it, so printing stopped. very strange.
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Paul Cartwright
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> > and I got an error saying it couldn't write to /var/tmp
> > /var was root root dwr-wr---
> > I chmodded it to 777 and now I can print.
> > what should /var file permissions be???
>
> /var should be 0755
> /var/tmp should be 1777 (the sticky bit should be set, just like for
> /tmp)
thanks!
/var/tmp was 1777, but somehow /var had changed, so I couldn't ( as a
user) write to it, so printing stopped. very strange.
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc
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