Re: Weird /dev/null problem (Was: SSH Daemon failing)
Thanks, its working fine now.
Andrew Tait
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Michael" <joel@diggy.com.au>
To: "Andrew Tait" <debian@cnl.com.au>
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, Andrew Tait wrote:
> > Those permissions are just plain wrong, It should be:
> >
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Dec 1 2000 null
> >
> > I have managed to change it to:
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Dec 1 2000 null
> >
> > However I am still missing the "c", and SSH still isn't working
(although
> > postgresql does now).
> >
> > How do I fix the permissions properly?
> >
> rm /dev/null
> mknod /dev/null c 1 3
> chmod 666 /dev/null
>
> If you are using DevFS, this should be automatically set each time the
> machine boots.
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> Joel Michael
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