Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:53 +0100
Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:03:09 -0500
> sindrome <sindrome at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Looks like a step in the right direction.  How do I troubleshoot to
> > figure out what application is appending/changing the value of PATH?
> 
> Nothing is. As far as I can see.
> 
> What I think is happening is that portupgrade is building and running
> shell scripts in /tmp. It's running them with (in ruby):
> 
the error message comes from a line like this:

>   system('/tmp/script')             [roughly]
> 
I do not know Ruby. But I am sure that there is somebody here who is
able to tell the original writer what to insert to get the command to
be executed to be printed. Then we will see what it is.

Erich