Re: New shmfs and Debian
grendel@vip.net.pl wrote:
>** On Apr 03, Tom Lees scribbled:
>> Maybe we should add a script to base-files which mounts /var/shm depending
>> on whether the current kernel needs it... probably easier than messing
>> around writing script to automatically edit /etc/fstab.
>
>It has to be mounted before any scripts are run from init.d - some of the
>started programs might need SystemV IPC - you never know.
In particular, apache failed for me without shmfs. Took me a while to
work out why (and it was only because seeing 'shm' in the syslog rang
faint bells from my last kernel configuration that I knew what was going
on).
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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