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My temp owner is root admin...

Code:

monkey:~ eric$ ls -ld /private/tmp

drwxrwxrwt   14 root  wheel  476 Nov  8 18:04 /private/tmp

monkey:~ eric$ ls -ld /tmp        

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  11 Apr 29  2005 /tmp -> private/tmp

monkey:~ eric$

Quote:

Originally Posted by lolajl

Turns out to have been a permission problem on /tmp.

I think it is more than a mere permission problem. Looking back at a previous post I see that you said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by lolaji in post#4

[04:49 PM] ~ 2 $ ls -ld /tmp
drwxr-xr-x 42 lolajl staff 1428 Nov 3 16:45 /tmp
[04:50 PM] ~ 3 $ ls -ld /private/tmp
drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 68 Nov 3 16:46 /private/tmp

I didn't notice at the time but the first result is not good.
As I pointed out much earlier (in the other thread that I referred to), the folder "/tmp" is supposed to be a symbolic link to "/private/tmp" - it isn't supposed to be an actual folder.
Thus the correct results should look like this:

Code:

% ls -ld /tmp

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  11 Apr 30  2005 /tmp -> private/tmp



% ls -ld /private/tmp 

drwxrwxrwt   11 root  wheel  374 Nov  8 09:28 /private/tmp

If you have an actual folder at /tmp instead of the symbolic link to /private/tmp then you will need to remove this whole folder (with 'rm -rf') and then recreate the symbolic link (with 'ln -s')
See the detailed instructions in this old thread:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=22763

As I suspected, the mysql problems are fixed as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hayne

Will do so . . . thanks!

By the way, should I remove everything in /tmp before making the changes as outlined in the thread? Checked and am seeing "tmp -> /private/tmp" within /tmp which of course is not the correct location.

Okay, fixed the link to /tmp and all is well and good now . . . thanks!