Re: Quake Segfaults

[mickyb@es.co.nz (Michael Beattie)]

On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 servis@purdue.edu wrote:

> On  7 Jun, Michael Beattie wrote:
> 
> > btw: Pine can only open my mailbox readonly after hamm upgrade. what
> > gives?
> 
> 
> Check your permissions on /tmp.  Most mail readers use tmp to store a
> copy of the mail file and if it can't write to tmp then it can't modify
> your mail spool and hence makes it read only.
> 
> drwxrwxrwt   6 root     root         6144 Jun  6 14:07 /tmp/
> 
> If this is not how it is do a 'chmod 1777 /tmp' as root.

Thanks! I got it before, but whats the 't'?? (all execute bit) typo, or
what is it?


                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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