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 <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday 8th February 2016 23:41 > To: Bill Maidment <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Problem with setting permissions in /etc/fstab > > 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. > >
