Trouble when cleaning the "/tmp" directory

Waleed Harbi waleed.harbi at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 13:55:18 UTC 2006


Could you please tell us what is the message user saw?
try Alt + F3 then log in through the user faced this issue, can the user log
in?
to go back for GUI run Alt + F7


On 10/3/06, Marq <vikramns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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