chmod 666 ///

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Apr 5 00:55:25 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:48 -0700, Bruce Hyatt wrote:
> In that case, it seems odd to me that executing "chmod 777 ///"
> didn't allow me to startx. 

If /tmp isn't "drwxrwxrwt" then it'll fail to start.  Using chmod 777
doesn't set "t".

That one got me, ages ago, when I copied an installation to a new drive,
and forgot to set the permissions properly for /tmp.

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