[BUGS] SCSI hardware failure?

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:41:00PM +1100, Callum Gibson wrote:
>I was more concerned as to why your /tmp would have changed permissions
>like that. I imagine a great many things might not like /tmp to be
>unwritable.

Probably a badly-behaved install script or similar that arbitrarily
changed permissions on a parent directory.  There are occasional
reports of people having /dev/null change permissions thanks to
badly designed programs that automatically "tighten" the permissions
on their output file (I think there's at least one port FORBIDDEN
due to such behaviour).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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