[plug] RH 6 upgrade kills X

[John Summerfield]

> 
> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Bob Ogden wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW   /tmp/.X11-unix contained...
> > 
> > > drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jul 17 19:17 ..
> > 
> > Aah! Wrong permissions on /tmp - should be  drwxrwxrwt
> 
> Aah! I also had the same problem. Caused some bizar error messages. I Have
> had RH6.0 installed for a while. I don't know how or when it happened.
> Changing the mode on /tmp back to normal fixed it.
> 
> 

Some people round here must be careless: this is on my RHL 6 system, and 
I've not had to change it:

[summer at possum summer]$ ls -d /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  11 root         2048 Jul 21 14:32 /tmp
[summer at possum summer]$ 


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