On Sunday 22 April 2007 01:58, Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 20:30 -0500, George P Boutwell wrote: > > I don't remember the exact details, but the problem I think revolved > > around not being able to properly boot-up since the /tmp and/or the > > /var/tmp where needed during the boot, but not being mounted yet. > > Actually in order for /tmp to even be mounted their needs to be a /tmp > directory on the root filesystem. Chances are, that it's not the lack > of mounting /tmp, but rather the permissions of /tmp (mounted and/or > unmounted).
The permissions of the mount point don't matter. Mount runs as root with capability DAC_OVERRIDE so a mode 0 mount point will do fine. If the mount-point doesn't exist or is not a directory then the mount operation will fail. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.blogspot.com/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.html Sponsoring Free Software development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
