[solved] changing /dev/shm permissions on boot

[Riko]

-- sorry if this is a double post, but I can't find the one I just wrote ... maybe hit cancel?! ---

Where do I define which permissions devices created via udev are getting? I need to change the permissions of /dev/shm on boot so that the profile-sync-daemon is working.

Of course I could work-around that by explicitly mounting /dev/shm via /etc/fstab, but since it is not in there to begin this, I don't think it belongs there. I could also put a chmod into rc.local, but that is only executed after the profile-sync-daemon is started.

I didn't find anything in /etc/udev or /lib/udev ...

Thanks and cheers!

Edit: updated subject after understanding the root cause.

[GeneBenson]

Hi Riko,

Although I've never done this myself I know a good tutorial that may help. It's written for Arch Linux but is general enough that you should be able to use it in LMDE. You can find the tutorial here.

Hope this helps.

[Riko]

Thanks, Gene, for the link. That looks a bit more complicated than I had hoped for but oh well, you'll always learn. I need to find some time to go through that and will post back and the final result.

Cheers, Riko

[Riko]

hmm, seems like /dev/shm is not actually created by udev but via

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/lib/init/mount-functions.sh

and

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/lib/init/tmpfs.sh

If I understood those scripts correctly, they first check if an entry for /dev/shm exists in /etc/fstab. If not, the device is created with hard-coded permissions 755. So I guess, putting an entry into /etc/fstab is actually the correct way to do it.

Since it's not an udev issue, I'll change the Subject entry.

Cheers, Riko