Trouble when cleaning the "/tmp" directory

Marq vikramns at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 10:02:48 UTC 2006


Hi

When i tried deleting files in "/tmp" it showed error so i tried deleting
file with the command

su -c 'rm -r /tmp/*'

On 03/10/06, John O'Loughlin <j.oloughlin at qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> /tmp needs to be 1777
>
> in other words world writables with the sticky bit set
>
> cd /; ls -l so see the permissions, should look like
>
> drwxrwxrwt    7 root root  4096 Oct  3 10:04 tmp
>
>
> Regards
> John
>
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, BERES Laszlo wrote:
>
> > Marq írta:
> >
> >> when i reboot my system, the ordinary users were not able to login to
> GNOME
> >> but from the root user i can go into GNOME
> >
> > I had the same issue when I accidentally changed the /tmp dir's
> ownership.
> > Check this!
> >
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