----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem
> 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 in /var, you have to do %ls lock -dl to set the perms for lock, you just have to do, chmod a+rw /var/lock/ dont know about security issues here but im pretty sure that you *dont* want to set /var to be writable. HTH, Shri ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant 23 McDonald Road Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com
