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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso!runxtsa!bde
- From: bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
- Subject: Re: [386 BSD] Permissions set wrong - HELP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.105359.4807@runx.oz.au>
- Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
- References: <C0618x.6uL@ais.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 10:53:59 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <C0618x.6uL@ais.org> draper@ais.org (Patrick Draper) writes:
- >
- >The directory /tmp didn't have access for others to write to it. Also, the
- >directory /var/tmp didn't have access either.
- >
- >Why are these directories set up this way? I switched them, but I don't know
- >what problems this will cause in the future.
-
- They are just wrong. If you unpack the bin01 distribution, it will create
- the directory /tmp with permissions rwxr-xr-x because /tmp is not actually
- in the bin01 distribution, only the file /tmp/install.bin01 is there, so
- cpio creates /tmp with the default permissions.
-
- I'm not very familiar with /tmp and had trouble getting the right
- directories in the archive when I repacked the src01 distribution. (The
- src01 distribution can be packed in only 34 files of size 240640 instead
- of 61, by removing 2.5MB of junk uucp binaries and compressing it with
- zip). One advantage of cpio over tar is that it restores directory
- permissions so the default /tmp permissions would get fixed up by a
- /tmp with the correct permissions in another archive.
- --
- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)
-