Re: Mounting /tmp

From: Bruce Coryell (bcoryell_at_chesco.com)
Date: 10/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:37:59 GMT

Mark Hobley wrote:
> I am using Debian, and something has gone wrong with my installation.
>
> If tmp is unmounted.
>
> ls -ld /tmp, reveals:
>
> drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 3072 2005-10-08 01:47 tmp
>
> If I mount /tmp as root, using mount /tmp
>
> ls -ld /tmp, reveals:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 3072 2005-10-08 01:47 tmp
>
> Why is that happening ?
>
> tmp was part of the root file system. I created a new partition, and added it
> to fstab as follows:
>
> /dev/hda6 /tmp ext2 rw,noexec,nosuid 0 2
>
> Please advise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark.
>

Is this on the same box as the dselect issue you wrote about in your
other post? Did this start happening after that dselect problem? Looks
like you might have pooched something there.