Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Andrew Tait
ent Smith - The Matrix - Original Message - From: "Joel Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Tait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing) > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:57,

Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Andrew Tait wrote: > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Feb 26 10:16 null > How do I fix the permissions properly? mknod /dev/null c 1 3 chown root:root /dev/null chmod 0666 /dev/null Have a look at /dev/MAKEDEV and look at the MAKDEV(8) manu

Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Jacob Elder
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:57:59AM +1100, Andrew Tait wrote: > How do I fix the permissions properly? > rm -f /dev/null ; mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 -- Jacob Elder http://www.lucidpark.net/

Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Andrew Tait
Hi All. After using strace -f to follow the child processes, it appears that once it forks, it attempts to access /dev/null (strace output at bottom), then reads the time, opens /dev/log and sends the following line Feb 26 10:19:06 porky sshd[295]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success It appears to b

Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Andrew Tait
ent Smith - The Matrix - Original Message - From: "Joel Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Tait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing) > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:57,

Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Andrew Tait wrote: > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Feb 26 10:16 null > How do I fix the permissions properly? mknod /dev/null c 1 3 chown root:root /dev/null chmod 0666 /dev/null Have a look at /dev/MAKEDEV and look at the MAKDEV(8) man

Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Jacob Elder
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:57:59AM +1100, Andrew Tait wrote: > How do I fix the permissions properly? > rm -f /dev/null ; mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 -- Jacob Elder http://www.lucidpark.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)

2002-02-25 Thread Andrew Tait
Hi All. After using strace -f to follow the child processes, it appears that once it forks, it attempts to access /dev/null (strace output at bottom), then reads the time, opens /dev/log and sends the following line Feb 26 10:19:06 porky sshd[295]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success It appears to