Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:26:38 -0600 (MDT) | From | Derrik Pates <> | Subject | /tmp mode/owner/group changes |
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I am currently admining a Linux box (486DX/50, 32MB RAM 500MB HD, Tseng ET4K/AX video card) which is acting as our mail server, and Web server, and I occasionally run X on it (either locally or by remote thru XDM). Today, I showed up at work, and people were having problems getting their e-mail, and I traced it down to the owner, group and mode of the /tmp directory being changed. I have no idea what would have changed that, ohter then X, but the owner was just a UID number 5000-something, wheel group, permissions 755. Any ideas what could have changed it? I had not run X for 2-3 days, and hadn't had e-mail trouble recently (had sendmail trouble, and the changing of the /tmp mode, owner and group before). I just added a cron job so about midnight every night, the /tmp directory will be changed back to its proper permissions, owner and group. If there's a better solution, please let me know.
Derrik Pates dpates@cavern.nmsu.edu -- "Some help would be nice... Or a sandwich and a cold beer!!!" --Boston Low, "The Dig"
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