/tmp perms and crontab -e as a user on Santiago

[upen]

Thanks Jonathan and Jim. I am not sure if this RHEL6 thing or this is
a result of starting the installation through Dell SBUU DVD. This DVD
does show redhat 6 option. That's why I continued using it. May be
booting with RHEL DVd is best way I guess.

I can reset the permission once I have answer to one more question.

Is there any link between /var/tmp and /tmp

I do see,

ls -ald /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt. 4 root root 4096 Dec 21 10:59 /var/tmp

ls -ald /tmp
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 21 11:03 /tmp

No link in between  /var/tmp and /tmp

Please let me know.

~A

On 12/21/10, Jonathan S Billings <jsbillin at umich.edu> wrote:
> On 12/21/2010 12:35 PM, upen wrote:
>> I am wondering why /tmp perms got setup like this, See below,
>>
>> ls -ald /tmp
>> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 21 11:03 /tmp
>
> You need to fix the permissions of /tmp.  They should have the mode 1777
> (drwxrwxrwt).  Because you create a new mountpoint for /tmp, you need to
> make sure the permissions on that mountpoint are correct.
>
> You probably also need to fix the SELinux attributes, running a
> 'restorecon -rv /tmp' should do it.
>
> --
> Jonathan Billings <jsbillin at umich.edu>
> College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support
>


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