On Tue, 25 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > c) some other program you installed (from source or tar ball) has changed it.
i accidentally did that once. Most tar filed i've come across create a single directory for all the files contained, but this one didn't. It did change the permissions on '.', however. i was wondering how X managed to break for users and not root, until i noticed the error message and realized that tmp's permissions got changed when that untarred...
