Absolute symlinks hell!!

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 17.11.2004 schrieb Robin Atwood um 0:44:

> Hmmm, so much for that theory. It actually complains about:
> 
> [root at opal root]# ls -l /usr/tmp
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Jun 21 20:22 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
> [root at opal root]# ls -al /var/tmp
> total 2434
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    1024 Nov 16 18:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x  19 root root    1024 Jun  6 17:31 ..
> 
> which looks quite kosher to me. Any ideas what's throwing it?
> TIA
> -Robin.

Don't know what you are doing, but /var/tmp has wrong permissions. It
has to have chmod 1777 and not chmod 0755.

Alexander


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