On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > At least since I mixed my slink system with potato packages (glibc 2.1) a > couple of months before, I have a problem with /dev/null. Firstly, lprng > reported at startup: "setuplog: open /dev/null failed: permission denied" (I > "fixed" it by installing lpr which does not complain about it), and now > since I installed exim correctly, I always get mails like this one: > [...] > /bin/sh: /dev/null: Permission denied > > Has anyone experienced this problem and can help me, please?
/dev/null should be writeable by everybody, if it is not, please do: chmod 666 /dev/null BTW: There is a user who reported a similar problem. So far, we have been unable to discover which package exactly is the responsible for that. Could you please post the output of "dpkg --get-selections" to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address? (if you think it is not sensitive information, of course). I have asked the same to the other user, hopefully we will be able to compare both lists and see what common packages do you have. Thanks.
