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- From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
- Subject: POSIX 'temporary file'
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.135239.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>
- Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
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- Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:42:39 GMT
- Lines: 95
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- VMS 5.5-2 uVAX 3100/30
-
- Below, I show an example of a NON privileged user account trying
- to use POSIX to do a simple pipe.
-
- Under a PRIVILEGED account, this works fine, however.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- The error is the wonderfully detailed UNIX type of thing..
- psx> ls | more
-
- more: cannot create temporary file
-
- psx>
- as you can see :-}
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- I also list the /tmp directory, which appears to have w:rwx ...
-
- (is it sensible and/or safe to assume that a 'temporary file' under POSIX
- is expecting to be created in /tmp ??)
-
- this is all straight-out-of-the-box - all I did was add the BINDs for
- my two user disks..
-
- Can anybody suggest what I've missed? I tried to ensure that /tmp has
- w:rwx, but the LINK just ignores this (which I guess sounds perfectly
- reasonable). The actual tmp directories seem to be correct..
-
- Puzzled... and YES I even waded through the delightfully useless
- MAN pages...
-
- The user resides on /user0/rm100/831252
-
- could it be trying to put the tmp file(s) onto the user disks??
- (but then the question is *how* does one find out!)
-
- any and all suggestions/opinions/wild guesses accepted :-)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- TANGO: Set Host TANGO /LOG
-
- Academic VAX - TANGO
-
- Username: RM100_831252 ! (i.e. a NON priviliged student account)
- Password:
-
- TANGO:$ posix
- psx> ls | more
-
- more: cannot create temporary file
- psx> cd /tmp
- psx> cd ..
- psx> ls -ls
- total 48
- 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 system system 1915 Jan 27 16:36 COCO_dev
- 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 system system 1915 Jan 12 09:06 COCO_tmp
- 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 system system 1915 Jan 27 17:21 CUPPA_dev
- 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 system system 1915 Jan 27 16:58 CUPPA_tmp
- 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 system system 1915 Jan 27 16:52 TANGO_dev
- 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 system system 1915 Jan 27 20:28 TANGO_tmp
- 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 1915 Jan 7 1992 bin
- 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 1915 Jan 7 1992 dev
- 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 1915 Jan 7 1992 etc
- 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 1915 Jan 7 1992 lib
- 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 root system 1915 Jan 27 16:58 tmp
- 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 root system 1915 Jan 7 1992 usr
- psx> pwd
- /cont
- psx> cd ..
- psx> ls -ls
- total 21
- 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root system 30 Jan 1 1970 bin -> /vms/sys11/syscommon/posix$bin
- 4 drwxr-xr-x 14 root system 1915 Jan 27 17:00 cont
- 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root system 15 Jan 1 1970 dev -> /cont/TANGO_dev
- 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root system 9 Jan 1 1970 etc -> /cont/etc
- 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root system 9 Jan 1 1970 lib -> /cont/lib
- 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root system 15 Jan 1 1970 tmp -> /cont/TANGO_tmp
- 4 drwxrwxr-x 2 root system 2048 Jan 28 13:07 user0
- 6 drwxr-x--x 2 system system 3072 Jan 28 13:07 user1
- 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root system 9 Jan 1 1970 usr -> /cont/usr
- 7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 3584 Jan 28 13:07 vms
- psx> exit
- TANGO:$ logout
-
- RM100_831252 logged out at 28-JAN-1993 13:08:01.86
-
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