From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: It appears there's been a change in the permissions on the /var/tmp directory since 7.1. I just traced down a problem with the Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 listener, which couldn't start due to being unable to create the file /var/tmp/.oracle. I noticed that directory had permissions drwxr-xr-t. I changed permissions to drwxrwxrwt and it fixed things. I checked with another system I set up last week and the permissions were correct. That was another Dell model, and I didn't install as many packages. I installed nearly everything on the system showing the problem, then went in and cleaned out stuff I didn't want (rshd, telnetd, stuff like that) - same as on the first system. The problem occurred on almost a clean system - just installed yesterday and partially configured for mail, dns, ssh and a few other things. It appears some package is overwriting the permissions on that directory - for some security reason? Just wondering if I'm breaking anything by resetting the permissions to world-writeable... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hard to remember what I've done since installing the OS - the problem just showed up when I traced the listener connection problem. Suggest checking all rpms which set permissions on that file to see which ones may set them incorrectly. I don't know if it's possible to reproduce this without going through a complete reinstall and trying to retrace my steps... Additional info:
/var/tmp should be 1777; not sure why it was off in your case. Sorry about this getting lost. Closing as WORKSFORME; the filesystem package does have the correct perms.