Walter Dnes wrote: > 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? >
I'm not real sure on what you are doing but, this is what mine is: root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/shm total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 Dec 3 18:20 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4400 Dec 26 18:56 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 dale users 32 Dec 3 18:20 sem.lastpassffsemaphore root@fireball / # It seems that whatever file is there is owned by the person who created it. I use LastPass for my password manager so, I assume, that is what that is. Odd tho that I am not currently logged into LastPast but can't imagine what else could be named that. That help any? Can I get you any other info? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
