Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

[sindrome]

echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/lib:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/lib32/compat:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/sindrome/.gnupg:/home/sindrome/bin:/home/sindrome/docs:/home/sindrome/docs/info:/home/sindrome/docs/config:/sbin:/bin:/etc:/usr/local/etc::/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:.


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> 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
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