"David C. Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip: wrong /tmp permissions]
> That was it--my clue was when X didn't start either. Now I need to try to
> track down whatever it was I did that changed its perms. I posted my
> question too soon--sorry, everyone, for the wasted bandwidth.
It happened to me once when I tarred up ".", then untarred it in /tmp
to check it went right. /tmp got the permissions of the original "."
directory. (Moral: don't "tar .", instead "tar .* *" in zsh, and/or
be careful untarring as root.)
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