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Is the sticky bit set on /tmp?

--mikeh

After I upgrade a machine from 2.3 to 2.5, openwin failed.  This machine
is a sparc20 w/64 meg memory and ZX graphic.  The error message appeared
whenever I tried to run openwin:

Create unix socket: permission denied.

Server error:
Cannot establish unix listening socket.

/tmp permission is 777, so is /tmp/.X11-unix.  Different users get the same
result.  Only root was able to run openwin w/o this message.  I rebooted
the machine couple times but no luck.  Any suggestion before I do a
initial installation?

Jason
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This is not the cause of your problem, but this deserves mention anyhow:

Mode 777 is insecure for /tmp; it leaves files vulnerable to
unauthorized deletion and provides a way for one to comprimise system
security with the ps(1) command.  /tmp and other temporary directories
should be mode 1777.

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I reinstall 2.5 using initial installation option.  Everthing works fine
after that.  Thanks for all the helpful suggestions.  The cure is NOT
to use the upgrade option when upgrading from Solaris 2.3 to 2.5.

Jason
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