Debian x64 image for XEN has wrong permissions on /tmp

It took me a while to figure out why mysql was not working on my Debian x64 instance image, it turns out the problem was that /tmp did not have the right permissions. I set it to 0777 manually and now it works fine. You might consider fixing this in the image, although now that I know how to circumvent the issue it's not that much of a problem for me :) Just wanted to let you know though...

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What were the permissions set to on the original image? Normally, they should be 1777 (the 1 enables the sticky bit, which makes the tmp dir handle certain things correctly).

gosh i don't remember, i don't even remember if it had the sticky bit set. i just remember it was not 777 and mysql was throwing errors all over the place in the logs not being able to write stuff to /tmp.

Thanks for pointing this out - I have updated that image to have correct permissions on /tmp

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.