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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> smgl-fhs is to make sure we have an FHS-compliant set of directories.
> We had a few spells that expected them so chroot creation is helped by
> having a single spell handle it -- it appears you've found a bug in how
> it sets permissions.  I thought it wasn't going to mess with permissions
> unless it has to create a new directory there, but apparently it mangles
> permissions.  Eric, what did you do now?

Followed the FHS 2.2 exactly. ;) (well, with default perms 0755). They don't
mention the sticky bit for /tmp: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.15.html
nor /var/tmp: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.15.html

-sandalle

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