dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

[Cheryl Homiak]

I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the
permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "total 0" and still says
that when ai do "chmod 1777 /var/lock". However, if I do "ls -l /var" for "lock"
it says 'drwxr-xr-x". i have /var on a separate partition. Should I change the
permissions for /var?
My fstab entry for this partition says:
/dev/hda7 /var ext2 defaults 0 2