From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DB31381FB for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E791021C12D; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D98A21C036 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:54:30 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgoKAG6Zu09FxIky/2dsb2JhbABEsnYDgRiBCIJWHHImJSQTiA6YUqE3i2KEAGIDiEKEfIdchV+IOoFYgwc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="210737186" Received: from 69-196-137-50.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.196.137.50]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 26 Dec 2012 21:54:29 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:54:20 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:54:20 -0500 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ? Message-ID: <20121227025420.GA6701@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: a15c98cb-cda5-46ac-ade6-57932acfb49b X-Archives-Hash: f20a419314188cb8337d63b75f47d74e This may be related to me running mdev instead of udev. I've been using /dev/shm for creating and deleting scratch files, to speed things up when processing photographs with automated scripts. It used to work. But now it no longer allows writes by anybody except root. A couple of days ago, I did a big update, which resulted in devpts having to be explicitly mounted. Since I run mdev instead of udev, the instruction to "rc-update add udev-mount sysinit" doesn't work for me. Instead I put an explicit "mount devpts" in /etc/local.d/000.start, which handles the automounting. Anybody else seeing /dev/shm as root-only, or is this an artifact of my weird setup? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications