dosemu: /var/lock permissions

[Brian Borowski]

Cheryl:
This sounds like the file might have been locked with chattr.
Do the 'man chattr'
and you'll see what this thing does; it sure had a couple of us fooled
here, when someone's system was broken and they had the file set to
immutable.  We couldn't change perms, no matter what we did until someone
clued into the use of chattr.

Brian Borowski


On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, 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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