[tex-live] warning: Insecure world writable dir /space/tmp, mode 041777

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 1/28/07, Martin Schr�der wrote:
>> Hi,
>> when I use ConTeXt on TL2007, I get these warnings:
>> /space/tmp/TL2007/bin/x86_64-linux/texmfstart:1838: warning: Insecure
>> world writable dir /space/tmp, mode 041777
>> /space/tmp/TL2007/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/system.rb:16:
>> warning: Insecure world writable dir /space/tmp, mode 041777
>>
>> I like my /tmp to be world writable! :-)
>>
>> Is this a ruby thing?
>
> Yes, I think that ruby is complaining about that (ConTeXt ruby scripts
> don't include that warning). The same thing happens if you mount
> windows the partition for example: simply ignore.
this warning was introduced some time ago in ruby and unfortunately the message cannot not be disabled (or maybe it can by now)

Hans 

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