>On Tuesday 30 October 2007 13:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:36:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > On Monday 29 October 2007 16:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Argh!! > > > > thanks for your patience. can it be old age? ;o) at any rate: > > it happens, eh? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -ld /var > > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 2005-12-19 03:45 /var/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -l /var > > total 11 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 kloro root 768 2007-08-29 06:38 backups/ > > drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 528 2007-02-16 11:38 cache/ > > drwxr-xr-x 3 kloro root 3800 2007-01-12 14:49 games/ > > drwxr-xr-x 61 kloro root 1576 2007-09-25 10:49 lib/ > > drwxrwsr-x 2 kloro staff 48 2004-12-15 14:55 local/ > > drwxrwxrwt 4 kloro root 96 2007-10-30 10:47 lock/ > > drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 2960 2007-10-30 10:47 log/ > > drwxrwsr-x 2 kloro mail 144 2007-10-30 12:08 mail/ > > drwxr-xr-x 2 kloro root 48 2005-12-19 02:57 opt/ > > drwxr-xr-x 18 kloro root 1080 2007-10-30 10:48 run/ > > drwxr-xr-x 12 kloro root 328 2007-05-26 14:21 spool/ > > drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 264 2007-10-30 11:02 tmp/ > > drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 1696 2007-07-26 15:34 www/ > > the rest of /var should be owned by root as well. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var > total 64 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-25 18:51 backups > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2007-10-25 21:17 cache > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-08-07 17:55 games > drwxr-xr-x 46 root root 4096 2007-10-27 09:29 lib > drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 2007-04-24 04:56 local > drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:33 lock > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:34 log > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 2007-08-06 08:43 lost+found > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2007-08-25 20:55 mail > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-08-06 16:30 opt > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:35 run > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-04-24 04:56 spool > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2007-10-30 13:34 tmp > > and I don't have anything in /var/tmp > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/tmp > total 0 > > to compare to. > > > after doing 'sudo chown -R root /var/tmp', i get: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -l /var/tmp > > total 0 > > drwx------ 8 root kloro 256 2007-10-29 17:53 kdecache-kloro/ > > drwx------ 3 kloro kloro 128 2007-10-30 11:04 kdecache-kloro7k3iRa/ > > drwx------ 5 root root 176 2006-01-29 16:10 kdecache-root/ > > drwx------ 4 root root 152 2007-10-02 17:11 kdecache-rootcohchy/ > > drwx------ 6 root root 200 2007-02-03 13:52 kdecache-rootKvAh16/ > > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2005-12-19 02:58 vi.recover/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ > > > > but firefox still won't save stuff unless i start it with 'sudo'. > > if you look at the perms of vi.recover/ you'll see that it has the > same perms as its parent. I think that should be the case for all > those. Seeing as that's a tmp dir though, what *I* would do at this > point is log out and shutdown kde. then mv all those directories > somewhere else for now, leaving just an empty /var/tmp and then > reboot. If it bombs, you can move all those things back. Its a tmp > directory, so you should be able to do that and have kde recreate > whatever it needs there. > > hth > A
when you say 'the rest of /var should be owned by root as well,' do you mean everything under /var, not just the immediate subdirectories? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
