Re: [PHP] /tmp/directory

On Jul 22, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Tedd Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi gang:
> 
> I should know this, but I don't.
> 
> Where is the /tmp/ directory?
> 
> You see, I have a client where his host has apparently changed the /tmp/ directory permissions such that old php/mysql scripts cannot write to the /tmp/ directory anymore -- they did at one time.
> 
> So, how do I fix it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
> 
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This is one of those questions I look at sideways and think "they did WHAAAA???"

Anyway, /tmp is under / on most linux systems, /private/tmp sometimes; I've encountered one system where it linked to /var/tmp, too. Try:

$ /bin/ls -ld /tmp

and see what it shows. -l is long listing, which will show permissions, if it's symlinked, etc. -d will treat /tmp as a file rather than as a directory (which would show the contents of /tmp).

Hopefully, they didn't delete the /tmp directory; but if they had, *many* things would probably stop working….