> I'd had problems dealing with PCMCIA support on my TuxTops 20U laptop, > reported here January 30. > > Characteristics were that running 'cardmgr' would produce the following > /var/syslog output: > > May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: starting, version is 3.1.22 > May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: open_sock(socket 0) failed: > Permission denied > May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: no sockets found! > May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: exiting > > ...which had me stymied. > > So, I read the manpage *carefully* and note: > > At startup, cardmgr requires that /tmp reside on a > filesystem that permits special device files (i.e., a real > linux filesystem, that is not mounted "nodev"). > > ...well, guess what yours truly had had for /tmp -- it's a modest > security precaution. > > Just checked -- it *is* possible to mount /tmp 'nodev' *after* cardmgr > is started, so all that's really required is to make sure the partition > (if any) is mounted 'dev' while cardmgr is launched.
(script snipped) Does mounting /tmp nodev prevent X from creating sockets? If you intend to live in a command line world this may even be preferred, but I figured I'd point that out. * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
