Re: PCMCIA probles solved: must mount /tmp dev

[Heather <star@betelgeuse.starshine.org>]

> I'd had problems dealing with PCMCIA support on my TuxTops 20U laptop,
> reported here January 30.
> 
> Characteristics were that running 'cardmgr' would produce the following
> /var/syslog output:
> 
>     May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: starting, version is 3.1.22
>     May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: open_sock(socket 0) failed:
>     Permission denied
>     May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: no sockets found!
>     May 21 00:18:58 ego cardmgr[15743]: exiting
> 
> ...which had me stymied.
> 
> So, I read the manpage *carefully* and note:
> 
>        At  startup,  cardmgr  requires  that  /tmp  reside  on  a
>        filesystem that permits special device files (i.e., a real
>        linux filesystem, that is not mounted "nodev").
> 
> ...well, guess what yours truly had had for /tmp -- it's a modest
> security precaution.
> 
> Just checked -- it *is* possible to mount /tmp 'nodev' *after* cardmgr
> is started, so all that's really required is to make sure the partition
> (if any) is mounted 'dev' while cardmgr is launched.

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Does mounting /tmp nodev prevent X from creating sockets?  If you intend to
live in a command line world this may even be preferred, but I figured I'd 
point that out.

* Heather Stern * star@ many places...