Dear Managers,
No replies were received. I did find a workaround, but I
don't understand how it works. The script originally undefined
TMPDIR. Putting this line at the beginning of the script fixed the
problem:
export TMPDIR="."
I do not understand why this should fix my problem. Here is
the permission on /tmp (and /var/tmp, for good measure):
drwxrwxrwt 6 root system 8192 Oct 21 16:05 /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 3 root system 8192 Oct 21 16:06 /var/tmp
Why can't a script whose owner/invoker also owns all files
involved with read/write permission granted read and write files in
/tmp? All files are local (not NFS). This script used to work
without such gyrations and I'm afraid a patch has caused a problem
here.
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
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Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 20:13:57 NZDT