Hello Debian users, I guess this is a dumb question but I just can't see the answer:
Yesterday a added another hard disk to our production server that is proudly running Debian 1.2. I wanted to have /tmp and /var/tmp mounted in a second disk so I created my ext2 filesystems and mounted them under /var/tmp and /tmp after editing /etc/fstab. I was in maintenance mode (single user mode), mode that I entered with "shutdown now". After the new filesystems were mounted I wanted to set the permissions of /tmp /var/tmp to be the same as the old directories in the / and /var directories respectively so I did a: chmod a+w,o+t /tmp chmod a+w,o+t /var/tmp Well, after I did a "ls -ld /tmp" and "ls -ld /var/tmp" the new permissions showed up just fine. However, after I rebooted the server to go into production again, permissions of /tmp /var/tmp were as before. I set permissions again now in multiple user mode and everything is fine now. This is not the first time this happens to me. A couple of weeks ago I re-partitioned my first disk and had the same problems. I had to set permissions while in multiple user mode to have things working properly. What's going on here? Is there anything I don't know about working in single user mode? Thanks in advance. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
