Re: /tmp/directory

On Jul 22, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Matijn Woudt <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > >> Hi gang: >> >> I should know this, but I don't. >> >> Where is the /tmp/ directory? >> >> You see, I have a client where his host has apparently changed the /tmp/ >> directory permissions such that old php/mysql scripts cannot write to the >> /tmp/ directory anymore -- they did at one time. >> >> So, how do I fix it? >> >> Cheers, >> >> tedd >> >> > Switch host? /tmp is required by the FHS and POSIX standards (writable for > any user), any host changing that should have no customers. > > - Matijn Good point -- we will add that reason to the many other reasons why we are changing host. Keep in mind, the installed software worked for nearly a decade and now the host has changed something that caused this error, but the current host doesn't seem to know what happened. Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd@sperling.com http://sperling.com