This may be related to me running mdev instead of udev. I've been using /dev/shm for creating and deleting scratch files, to speed things up when processing photographs with automated scripts. It used to work. But now it no longer allows writes by anybody except root. A couple of days ago, I did a big update, which resulted in devpts having to be explicitly mounted. Since I run mdev instead of udev, the instruction to "rc-update add udev-mount sysinit" doesn't work for me. Instead I put an explicit "mount devpts" in /etc/local.d/000.start, which handles the automounting. Anybody else seeing /dev/shm as root-only, or is this an artifact of my weird setup?
-- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
