Trouble when cleaning the "/tmp" directory

[Cameron Simpson]

On 03Oct2006 10:43, Marq <vikramns at gmail.com> wrote:
| I have recently installed Redhat Fedora 5 system
| and i have created two ordinary users
| 
| yesterday i deleted all the files and directories in the "/tmp" directory
| 
| when i reboot my system, the ordinary users were not able to login to GNOME
| but from the root user i can go into GNOME

PLease tell us exactly what commands you issued to remove these files
from /tmp.

Also, please report the output of:

        ls -la /tmp/.

I would guess ordinary users can no longer make files in /tmp.

Cheers,
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