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 6E59C1381FB for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8197E21C139; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:20:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f43.google.com (mail-yh0-f43.google.com [209.85.213.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 111E221C12D for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f43.google.com with SMTP id 3so1590712yhp.16 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:19:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XnmfLkpxaYj9pZMMjcVWEGxhn9zg1KcuJt3mHyLjbos=; b=a3cuhN80pAxE3eDQHx31EPC81XuqBG5Hq2NpuOFpnumvjw6Jgw0Vpj1Iaa4F0FslDu tTVJNWRpRsvoPu1GE7iozWt80irX89cCPj5jIsWRWxRGdH5ValHVfOuDyaCTH/umImnB 9HdkjrXTDeCYdNqjao2L79q38Ig4YcuwsNMVW1pT4hjOP3u8Zkxvk3zeb47mUKebbCXx Ja1dW3FKfV3glwBCjOp6dq2tTD9UD1bX7rDtB7D4pXJMf4Au7TxxnGCriAbAMHMJrude FiBhW4Vzp8/4yAL+qT3L3hHbfNYvoRTqzNWiPdiDSZ6gDOvFPJTcP+Z7s7GkTY4o7BHA f4SQ== X-Received: by 10.236.151.68 with SMTP id a44mr26189838yhk.59.1356578353011; Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-94-18.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.94.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w2sm26295422yhk.8.2012.12.26.19.19.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:19:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50DBBE2E.5080706@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:19:10 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ? References: <20121227025420.GA6701@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20121227025420.GA6701@waltdnes.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 52703b85-ff48-436a-a006-d8409d90da3b X-Archives-Hash: 81fe6d69a8c721944ac3536ec8573e80 Walter Dnes wrote: > 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? > I'm not real sure on what you are doing but, this is what mine is: root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/shm total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 Dec 3 18:20 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4400 Dec 26 18:56 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 dale users 32 Dec 3 18:20 sem.lastpassffsemaphore root@fireball / # It seems that whatever file is there is owned by the person who created it. I use LastPass for my password manager so, I assume, that is what that is. Odd tho that I am not currently logged into LastPast but can't imagine what else could be named that. That help any? Can I get you any other info? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!