dosemu: /var/lock permissions

[Kerry Hoath]

To check the permitions of /var/lock do:
ls -ld /var/lock
the d option gives the permitions on the directory without listing the
contents. The permitions on /var should be fine,
to change the permitions on /var/lock do:
chmod 1777 /var/lock
No need to edit fstab, the permitions on a mountppoint are set by
the root directory that is mounted on that mount point.
I have /var on a separate partition as well, and my lock files work just fine.

Regards, Kerry.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:28:56AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I received a letter from the debian maintainer of dosemu telling me to check the
> permissions of /var/lock. When i did this with ls -l i got "total 0. When I
> checked /var I got permissions indicating that only root could write to
> /var/lock. However, I can't seem to change the permissions no matter what I do;
> even changing that partition's entry in /etc/fstab doesn't do it. there are
> other directories in /var that are writable by everybody. My /var is on a
> separate partition, courteousy of the partitioning howto. I am concerned because
> I compared this with a machine I am working on for somebody else where /var is
> part of the root partition; /var/loc is writable by everybody there and the
> number given after the permissions is "3" where the one given in my setup is '5"
> (I'm afraid I haven't figured out what this means.
> Do I need to mount /var differently in fstab? I tried changing the fstab entry
> from "defaults" to "rw" and then to "rw,suid" to no avail.
> TIA.
> 
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