Re: [PHP] /tmp/directory
[email protected] (Tedd Sperling)
| Newsgroups | php.general |
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On Jul 22, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Matijn Woudt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:20 PM, 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 >> >> > Switch host? /tmp is required by the FHS and POSIX standards (writable for > any user), any host changing that should have no customers. > > - Matijn Good point -- we will add that reason to the many other reasons why we are changing host. Keep in mind, the installed software worked for nearly a decade and now the host has changed something that caused this error, but the current host doesn't seem to know what happened. Cheers, tedd _____________________ [email protected] http://sperling.com