I received a letter from the debian maintainer of dosemu telling me to check the permissions of /var/lock. When i did this with ls -l i got "total 0. When I checked /var I got permissions indicating that only root could write to /var/lock. However, I can't seem to change the permissions no matter what I do; even changing that partition's entry in /etc/fstab doesn't do it. there are other directories in /var that are writable by everybody. My /var is on a separate partition, courteousy of the partitioning howto. I am concerned because I compared this with a machine I am working on for somebody else where /var is part of the root partition; /var/loc is writable by everybody there and the number given after the permissions is "3" where the one given in my setup is '5" (I'm afraid I haven't figured out what this means. Do I need to mount /var differently in fstab? I tried changing the fstab entry from "defaults" to "rw" and then to "rw,suid" to no avail. TIA.
