On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Bill Maidment <[email protected]> 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.
