On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? > > ls -al /dev/null > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null
This can happen if some program, e.g. an early init script, writes to /dev/null before the device node for it is created. In this case, redirection (foobar > /dev/null) will create it as a regular file. > Where do you fix this? I don't really have an explanation or a solution. To debug the problem, reboot with init=/bin/bash added to the kernel command line and run the scripts in /etc/rcS.d, one at a time (/etc/rcS.d/Swhatever start). Check /dev/null after each script. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
