[PLUG] Even root can't write to /tmp?!

[Phil Tomson]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Mark Martin wrote:

> The problem that I just described is a good reason to put /tmp and /var on
> separate partitions.
>
> It doesn't necessarily sound like a hardware problem to me.  If it's a
> hardware problem, you'd expect to see errors related to I/O on the drive
> listed in /var/log/messages.
>
> Here's another suggestion that could be completely misguided.  (I'm sure
> someone will correct me quickly if it is.)  If /tmp lives on an ext2
> filesystem, try checking the file attributes of /tmp using lsattr.  Maybe the
> "i" attribute somehow got turned on for the directory.
>

Bingo.  The 'i' attribute seems to b set for the /tmp dir. So how do I fix
it?  How could it happen?

Phil