[Wine] Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64

[Martin Gregorie]

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 11:36 -0500, Itzamna wrote:
>
> None of my partitions seem full, so no problems there.
>
OK

>  The permissions of my /home directory are all drwxrwxrwx or
> -rwxrwxrwx, I can't imagine that's the problem either.
>
OK

> I don't want to mount /usr with the exec option, as that would be a
> huge security risk. 
> 
Well, considering that /usr contains just about all executables except
those that are needed at boot time you might want to reconsider that.

The standard places to look for executables are

/bin		- programs used during the boot process
/sbin		- privileged programs used during the boot process
/usr/bin	- all programs in a distro's optional packages
		  and extras
/usr/sbin	- all privileged programs in a distro's optional
		  packages and extras
/usr/local/bin	} these are where all non-distro programs should go, 
/usr/local/sbin } i.e binary downloads and locally compiled programs.
		  This rule is commonly ignored though its a sensible
                  distinction.

So, in general, the /usr partition *should* be exec rather than  noexec.


Martin