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Adonis K. Kakoulidis
Asked: 2012-08-22 14:09:19 +0800 CST

Accidentally deleted tmp folder

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i was trying to run

sudo rm -r ./tmp

but instead typed

sudo rm -r /tmp

Will it be fixed by running?

sudo mkdir /tmp

if i do what permissions should i give it?

ps: i didnt log out of my system yet

tmp

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I can't think of a reason why this shouldn't work. On my system, the permissions are set by:

    sudo chmod 1777 /tmp

    (drwxrwxrwxt)

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  2. You should run the following commands to restore the tmp folder.

    sudo -i
# You now have a root prompt and do not need to continue typing sudo
mkdir /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp
exit

    Then you sould be all good

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  3. To add to Alex's answer, you can do both those commands at the same time using the -m or --mode option for mkdir(1), which specifies the mode for the created directory:

    -m, --mode=MODE   set file mode (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask

    So the command would be:

    sudo mkdir -m 1777 /tmp
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