On 11 Feb 2001, at 14:25, Mike Noyes wrote:
> At 08:54 PM 2/10/01 -0800, David Faught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Well, once again, everything is clear if you just read
> >far enough. It turns out that the PCMCIA cardmgr
> >creates its special devices dynamically in the /tmp
> >directory, NOT the /dev directory! In Oxygen, there
> >is an entry in /etc/fstab that causes /tmp to be
> >mounted with the "nodev" attribute, therefore the
> >problem. Changing this entry to remove the "nodev"
> >attribute allows the cardmgr to function properly, and
> >voila! it works. There is probably a good reason why
> >/tmp has the "nodev" attribute, but I'm taking it one
> >step at a time ...
> I'm glad you figured it out. You may want to submit a bug report on this.
> That way the fix wont be forgotten. Thanks.
This isn't a bug, but was part of the increased security in Oxygen.
I'm surprised that there are device files being created in /tmp;
can't they be pointed to /dev?
As for lcap (mentioned previously) that only sets capabilities in the
kernel, and isn't used by the normal system, though it is available
to the user for them to use.
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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
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