[sclug] sclug Digest, Vol 114, Issue 7

[Neil Haughton]

The problem seemed to be /var/tmp which was 766 root:root. I chmodded it to
1777  and that fixed things.
Thanks both.

Neil
(from my mobile phone)
On Mar 29, 2013 12:00 PM, <sclug-request at sclug.org.uk> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:22:54 +0000
> Subject: [sclug] var permissions
> Quick question for anyone who can help.
>
> I've had to recreate my /var directory. What owner/group and permissions
> should it have? I currently have drwxr-xr-x  root:root, and I'm getting
> unexpected file creation errors reported by various apps.
>
> TIA
>
> Neil
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Steel <mail at jsteel.org>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:48:20 +0000
> Subject: Re: [sclug] var permissions
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 09:22:54PM +0000, Neil Haughton wrote:
> > Quick question for anyone who can help.
> >
> > I've had to recreate my /var directory. What owner/group and permissions
> > should it have? I currently have drwxr-xr-x  root:root, and I'm getting
> > unexpected file creation errors reported by various apps.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Neil
>
> That's exactly what I have, on Arch Linux.
>
> --
> Jonathan Steel
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "David Kerrawn" <davek at kerrawn.co.uk>
> To: <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:50:20 -0000
> Subject: Re: [sclug] var permissions
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
> > Behalf Of Neil Haughton
> > Sent: 28 March 2013 21:23
> > To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> > Subject: [sclug] var permissions
> >
> > Quick question for anyone who can help.
> >
> > I've had to recreate my /var directory. What owner/group and
> > permissions
> > should it have? I currently have drwxr-xr-x  root:root, and I'm getting
> > unexpected file creation errors reported by various apps.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Neil
>
> Here's a selection from my /var
>
> $ ls -la /var
> total 84
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root     root      4096 Feb 27 01:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root     root      4096 Mar 20 22:52 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root      4096 Mar 21 06:27 backups
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root     root      4096 Feb 27 00:54 cache
> drwxr-xr-x 67 root     root      4096 Mar  6 15:19 lib
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root     staff     4096 Oct 20  2008 local
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root         9 Feb 27 01:13 lock -> /run/lock
> drwxr-xr-x 25 root     root      4096 Mar 28 06:41 log
> drwx------  2 root     root     16384 Jan 23  2009 lost+found
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root     mail      4096 Oct  6  2010 mail
> drwx------  3 snmp     snmp      4096 Feb 27 00:30 net-snmp
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root      4096 Jan 23  2009 opt
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root         4 Feb 27 01:13 run -> /run
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root     root      4096 Feb 27 00:40 spool
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root     root      4096 Mar 23  2009 symapi
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root     root      4096 Feb 15 12:38 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root     root      4096 Feb 21 18:02 www
>
> Regards
> David
>
>
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