Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

Hacksaw hacksaw at hacksaw.org
Wed Mar 2 15:24:37 UTC 2005


>sorry, forgot to touch/create the file before writing to it
You should never have to do this. The > should create the file if it doesn't 
exist.

This is what one expects for tmp permissions and ownership:

drwxrwxrwt  20 root root 32768 Mar  2 08:44 tmp

If it doesn't look like this, run

chmod 1777 /tmp

The 1 at the beginning corresponds to the 't' at the end. This is the "sticky" 
bit. On a directory it tells the system to allow anyone to create files here, 
but don't allow people to modify files they don't own.


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