Nico The issue has been resolved. I discovered a file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mimedefang.conf which contained the following line (among others): z /var/spool/MD-Quarantine 0750 defang defang - -
This is obvious used in a chmod call. Altering 0750 to 0770 got me back in business. Cheers Bill -----Original message----- > From:Bill Maidment <b...@maidment.me> > Sent: Tuesday 9th February 2016 15:21 > To: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> > Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov <scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov> > Subject: RE: Problem with setting permissions in /etc/fstab > > Nico > Thanks for your suggestions. > I know it is not a typo as I did copy and paste into the second machine > /etc/fstab and it worked. > I note that /etc/mtab contains > /dev/shm /var/spool/MIMEDefang tmpfs > rw,relatime,size=262144k,mode=770,uid=991,gid=990 0 0 > so it looks like the mount is working OK. > > I believe your other suggestion might well be the cause and I am trying to > locate which service is causing the issue. > /etc/passwd has > defang:x:991:990:MIMEDefang User:/var/spool/MIMEDefang:/sbin/nologin > May be this is causing something to go wrong. > > Still searching..... > > Cheers > Bill > > -----Original message----- > > From:Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Monday 8th February 2016 23:41 > > To: Bill Maidment <b...@maidment.me> > > Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov <scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov> > > Subject: Re: Problem with setting permissions in /etc/fstab > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Bill Maidment <b...@maidment.me> wrote: > > > An update. > > > I have put the same /etc/fstab entry in another SL7.2 machine and it sets > > > the permissions correctly on boot. > > > > > > On the problem machine I have tried setting the permissions on the > > > directory to 0770 before rebooting, but something is setting it to 0750 > > > on boot. > > > A manual mount works fine with: > > > mount -t tmpfs -o size=256m,mode=0770,uid=defang,gid=defang /dev/shm > > > /var/spool/MIMEDefang > > > > > > So what can be upsetting the /etc/fstab mount? > > > > > > I'm stumped! > > > > > > Cheers > > > Bill > > > > Do you have a typo in /etc/fstab, perhaps? Or some other management > > process, such as chef, puppet, cfentine, etc. that make might be > > resetting directory permissions. > > > > > >
