This appears to be a pretty serious problem. I agree, just dropping '-p' won't work for functional reasons.
As a better long-term solution, have you considered just moving those directories out of /tmp? There's almost always a safer place to put temporary files/directories. For instance, under /var/lib or /var/run, or whatever is most appropriate as an application-specific directory, whose parent isn't world-writable. tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120229215118.gh1...@sentinelchicken.org