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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Do you have smgl-fhs installed?  Can you check the date the permissions 
where changed with the activity log?

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:23:39PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I didn't do "system-update" for a week or so, and yesterday I did. Somehow, 
> the
> permissions on my /tmp directory are different now. More specifically, 
> nobody
> but root can create files there. Perforce gives the following error for
> example:
> 
> drwxr-xr-t  11 root root 280 2005-05-18 13:49 /tmp
> $ p4 submit ...
> open for write: /tmp/tmp.32134.0: Permission denied
> Client side operation(s) failed.  Command aborted.
> 
> After fixing permissions everything is back to normal. I am reasonably sure 
> it
> has something to do with "sorcery system-update" and/or one of the recently 
> (-1
> week) updated spells, because I've been submitting stuff to repository
> continuously before issuing the update command. My /tmp is mounted as 
> tmpfs, I
> didn't reboot the machine in days, and fstab didn't change.
> 
> I'd appreciate any input, that's not a good thing if something like that
> happens.
> 
> Sergey.
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