Solaris permission problem(newbie)

[jdm at world.std.com (John Malloy)]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Is there a way of freeing (adding) up space on /var, so the LARGE Sun patch
cluster can work?


Jerry Feldman wrote:

> First, the permission of /var/tmp and /tmp should be 0777.
> RWX for everyone.
> Secondly, some software hard codes /tmp and /var/tmp and /usr/tmp.
>
> If you moved /var/tmp elsewhere, you should make sure it has the correct
> permissions.
>
> Also, files in /var/adm generally are read/write by root only.
>
> On 19 Apr 2000, at 13:20, John Malloy wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a Solaris 2.6 machine at work.
> >
> > We just rebooted and now are having a permission problem with the files.
> >
> > Some files were moved out of  /var  to free up some space for patches.
> >
> > I have a feeling that this caused the permission problem (especially
> > from /var/tmp).
> >
> > How does this work?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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> > John Malloy
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