On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0700, Reza Roboubi wrote: > Reza Roboubi wrote: > >I've had exactly this problem and this solution worked: > >http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/2e1954d22cbe441d/62571302f1c3dfaa?lnk=st&q=sshd+%22fatal+daemon+failed+success%22&rnum=6#62571302f1c3dfaa > > > > > >Now I wonder why /dev/null was altered? Could other things have > >changed? Do I need a full reinstall to be sure? > > Is the question unclear, or is it that nobody knows the answer? the question is clear, but only after a lot of web clicking on my part, so perhaps that is part of your lack of response. Likely nobody knows the answer either. That was an old problem, and likely whatever caused it has been fixed a long time ago. Or, it is a very transient problem and not enough people are seeing it to have it come up enough to be figured out. > > I just want to know how the type and/or permissions of /dev/null could > have been altered? maybe some bug in an unrelated install script? if it was my machine, I would just fix /dev/null and be done with it. if it happened again, then I'd start digging. Without comparing your system exactly with those that have also shown the problem, it'd probably be hard to track down... my .02 A
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