[sclug] Mpack failing with execv error

[Jonathan H N Chin]

Tim Sutton <suttont at onetel.net.uk> wrote:
> Recently I upgraded some things on my machine and now mpack fails with:

> -bash-2.05b$ mpack -s "Test" testfile.tar.bz2  some at address.com
> execv: No such file or directory
                         ^^^^^^^^^

> I ran an strace on the above command and it shows that it is a temporary file 
> which is not there not the original file:
[...]
> open("/root/tmp/mpackow0Jru", O_RDONLY) = 4
        ^^^^^^^^^

I expect you installed some PAM module that give users their own
private /tmp equivalent inside their home directories. On debian
the package would be libpam-tmpdir. Possibly the equivalent package
on your distribution is not configured properly.

I expect root doesn't have a directory "tmp" in its home.

The simple solution is either to create the directory or to stop
using the PAM module.


-jonathan

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