To check the permitions of /var/lock do: ls -ld /var/lock the d option gives the permitions on the directory without listing the contents. The permitions on /var should be fine, to change the permitions on /var/lock do: chmod 1777 /var/lock No need to edit fstab, the permitions on a mountppoint are set by the root directory that is mounted on that mount point. I have /var on a separate partition as well, and my lock files work just fine. Regards, Kerry. On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:28:56AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
