system boots OK, but /tmp not writable by world

2007-12-25 6:24:00

I'm puzzled by this. I recently moved to a new drive for my system
drive - SCSI on x86 Sol 8. It was set up with the ufsdump/ufsrestore
technique many people here helpfully suggested.

On boot swap comes on fine.

tmp is mounted like so:
/tmp on swap read/write/setuid/dev=2 on Tue Aug 22 17:02:11 2006

But the /tmp folder is writable only by owner, root.

This causes some services to not start.
So I manually chmod go+w /tmp and
start the missing services. Then everything
is fine.

Here are the lines related to /tmp in vfstab:

/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s3 - - swap - no -
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -

Does anyone have a suggestion on why /tmp doesn't
show world writable on boot?

Regards,

--Donald

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