>> "JM" == Jon Marler <jmarler@istrength.net> writes: JM> The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. JM> I set them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. This would be very strange. When I create it with MAKEDEV, it is $ ls -l null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 May 25 02:02 null Do you have the "c" as first character? Maybe xour /dev/null was overwritten. Ciao, Martin