Re: Bash,/dev/null and errors

[Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW <linolusu@tin.it>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:13:16 +0100
pasca@physics.leidenuniv.nl wrote:

> Dear Andrea 
> >bash: /dev/null : permission denied
> 
> something similar happened to me some time ago.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-italian/2004/04/msg00308.html
> 
> /dev/null is a special file : ls -l /dev/null returns:
> 
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 2006-02-13 09:29 /dev/null
> 
> >even chmodding 777 (as root) /dev/null did not solve the problem.
> 
> In my case /dev/null had become (nobody knows how) a standard file, so
> many programs couldn't write on it and the just stopped.
> Check your permissions, and in case restore /dev/null as should.
> Hope that helps

it helps indeed!
i checked the permissions and in fact it was a regular file, then i
updated udev, rebooted and now it works...

thanks a lot
bye



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