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When I enter the command sudo ufw status in Ubuntu, I receive the following error:

ERROR: /var/lib is world writable!

Can anyone help?

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What are /var/lib's permissions? For that matter, what are /var's? – mpez0 Feb 19 '10 at 14:59
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sudo chmod 755 /var/lib will ensure that /var/lib has the right permissions.

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but still gives same error – user28760 Feb 19 '10 at 7:13
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