RE: [TCLUG:21119] RH 5.1 question

[Ben Luey <lueyb@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu>]

Is the perm on /tmp 1777?

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 jrsmit2@uswest.com wrote:

> I told him to double-check free space on the partition holding /etc, and
> make sure that root still has write perms to /etc, but other than that
> I have no clue.  Please, someone, help me figure out what these folks
> have done to their poor box! :)
> 
> It sounds to me like a problem with being unable to write to the various
> places programs write scratch files: /tmp /var and ~.  My guess would be
> that one of those is either not mounted, has the wrong permissions, or is
> full.
> 
> You can always run strace on the commands that are erroring, or look at the
> source and figure out what causes those errors.
> 
> Jer
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