Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:39, Peter Lebbing pe...@digitalbrains.com wrote: Hello all, Since some time I get the message swapon: [...]: insecure permissions 1660, 0660 suggested. [1] is related to this. I'm not worried, but there are two things I wonder: 1) Foremost, what does the sticky

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. What release are you running? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. What release are you running? This is on Wheezy (testing). This behaviour is relatively new in testing.

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
Grepping the debian udev source gives: udev/udevd.c: udev/udev-rules.c: udev/udev-event.c: /* set sticky bit, so we do not remove the node on module unload */ And in line 426-429 of udev/udev-node.c, version 175-3, function int udev_node_remove(struct udev_device *dev): if (stats.st_mode

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. What release are you running? This is on Wheezy

Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Lebbing
Hello all, Since some time I get the message swapon: [...]: insecure permissions 1660, 0660 suggested. [1] is related to this. I'm not worried, but there are two things I wonder: 1) Foremost, what does the sticky bit on character or block device files even _mean_? I'm guessing it's