On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:16:05AM -0400, Jeff wrote: > Assuming that the named DLM namespace does not > already exist, the following code should > create a namespace which any process on the system > can open. However it doesn't work and subsequent > processes must be root or else the open_lockspace > call fails with Odd, it works here: dlm_create_lockspace(lsname, 0755); # ls -l /dev/misc/ total 0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 62 Jun 11 08:20 dlm-control crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 Aug 17 13:39 dlm_default crwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10, 60 Aug 18 14:44 dlm_testls crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 62 Feb 19 08:38 gdlm Have you checked the value of umask ? or is SELinux getting in the way ?(eek!) -- patrick