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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to add nodev for /dev/shm partition in Linux using shell script? Post 302914956 by Perderabo on Friday 29th of August 2014 10:56:06 AM
Old 08-29-2014
Actually, I think that the OP wants to alter /etc/fstab via a shell script to make this change permanent. I had to make a similar change because our security auditors requested it. In my case i had to modify our kickstart file so that "nodev,nosuid,noexec" was added to /dev/shm during the OS installation. What I did was:
Code:
awk ' $2=="/dev/shm" { $4=$4",nodev,nosuid,noexec" ;} 1' < fstab  > fstab.new
cp fstab.new fstab
rm fstab.new

There were other, similiar changes to other file systems. I gave each one it's own paragraph. This makes it easy to modify later. That awk statement is very easy to understand which means that I don't need to waste time explaining code to an auditor who is reviewing my kickstart.
 

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dtc_kill_vps_disk(8)					      System Manager's Manual					      dtc_kill_vps_disk(8)

NAME
dtc_kill_vps_disk - destroy LVM disks for freeing space SYNOPSIS
dtc_kill_vps_disk VPS_NUMBER [ lvm|loopback ] DESCRIPTION
dtc_kill_vps_disk This shell script is a part of the dtc-xen package that is to be used by the dtc panel to manage a Xen VPS server. This script is used to delete a partitions that was used by a VPS. It will delete the normal partition that was used as a root disk, and the swap partition. dtc_kill_vps_disk is to be used by the dtc-xen SOAP server, but can also be used as a standalone userland tool. OPTIONS
VPS_NUMBER has to be a number between 01 and 19. Let's say the number is 16, and that dtc-xen is configured to use the volume group called lvm1, then this script will create /dev/lvm1/xen16 and /dev/lvm1/xen16swap. IMAGE_TYPE This parameter can have 2 values: either lvm or loopback. If ommited, then lvm is used. If lvm is used, then this script will create a partition using lvmcreate, otherwise it will create an image file. Both will later be used for the VPS. EXAMPLE
dtc_setup_vps_disk 04 lvm This will delete the 2 LVM partitions that were used by the VPS named xen04, the first one being the root partition, and the second one being the swap partition. VERSION
This documentation describes dtc_kill_vps_disk See http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc-xen.html for updates. SEE ALSO
dtc_reinstall_os(8), dtc_setup_vps_disk(8) dtc_kill_vps_disk(8)
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