-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> To quote Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and > # will work fine either way. > > Just out of curiosity, what does a 'shm' filesystem accomplish? I peek > through what kernel docs I'm familiar with didn't explain much :( I > don't even know what it's *supposed* to do :) Without it stuff that uses shared memory segments (like apache and samba) won't work. I don't recall why it's needed. If you search google for "linux shmfs" you'll find some pages that may answer that question. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6XcY//ZTSZFDeHPwRAsJ8AKCJAwrqP6InT8ci9fU8Uhg8B/1kpQCfYmeo QhHDGrjJJtyapbc0g7VrVfc= =h6zE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
