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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>:
> It's wasn't the sticky bit. /tmp has to be writable by the world even before
> sticky bit comes into play. I may be wrong but 0755 means nobody but root 
> can
> create files in /tmp, which would render the system unusable.
<snip>

I had a few exceptions in there (namely /root, /var/tmp and /tmp): here's 
what I
had for /tmp (similar for /var/tmp):
chmod  0777  $INSTALL_ROOT/var/tmp

So all I did was remove the sticky bit from what we normally have. I didn't
change /tmp otherwise.

-sandalle

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