Re: [SLE] /var properties?

On Monday 07 March 2005 23:05, Paul Cartwright wrote:

my printer stopped working, Epson USB model. So I went to the command line and did a cat FILE | lp

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)