On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > This morning I had a bad surprize on my sarge system: X did not start > any more. After some time I've found the culprit: something had changed > permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x. > > I have no idea what could be the cause of this permission change. > Has anybody ever seen this? > I have seen this happen previously when I decided to move /tmp to its own partition and I forgot to change the permissions after mounting the new partition. Beyond that, I can't think of what would inadvertently cause it, except for maybe a badly behaved script.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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