I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

[Darlene Wallach]

Suvayu,

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:59:43PM -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
>> I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room
>>
>> Now I get errors when I boot and try to login
>
> AFAIK, /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem in newer Fedoras.  That means, you can
> just reboot, and things will be back to normal.  Did you try that?

Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my email.

Reindl responded with the following which worked:

the folder with the correct permissions is important
/tmp needs chmod 1777 (everybody is allowed to write
but only the onwer can open his temp-files)

mkdir /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp

>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Suvayu
>

Thank you

Darlene Wallach
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