Download Update's fail (Unix File Permissions on /tmp directory) When I goto admin/reports/updates/update select all and then hit the "Download these updates" I get the following  error message 


  The specified file temporary://filewq3Nao could not be copied, because the destination directory is not properly configured. This may be caused by a problem with file or directory permissions. More information is available in the system log.
  http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/ctools-7.x-1.0-alpha4.tar.gz could not be saved to temporary://update-cache/ctools-7.x-1.0-alpha4.tar.gz.


File System Settings can be found here: admin/config/media/file-system

/tmp is setup with 777 and I get NO errors on this page.  I attempted to create a /tmp2 with 777 and that directory would fail the security checks.  I am on shared hosting.  There are directories in /tmp called analog, awstats, cpbandwidth, webalizer, webalizerftp which I assume are CPannel utilities:)
You probably have your own tmp directory, which is not /tmp but /some/path/to/your/directory/tmp. You wouldn't be allowed to create /tmp2 for sure :)

To find that out, go to admin/reports/status/php and look for _SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"], that will tell you where Drupal is located and from there, you should be able to build the path to your tmp directory.

Then set the temporary directory to that.