/dev/null: permission denied - problem
Hello!
At least since I mixed my slink system with potato packages (glibc 2.1) a
couple of months before, I have a problem with /dev/null. Firstly, lprng
reported at startup: "setuplog: open /dev/null failed: permission denied" (I
"fixed" it by installing lpr which does not complain about it), and now
since I installed exim correctly, I always get mails like this one:
>From root@PENTIUMDIOXID Sun Apr 23 20:38:01 2000
Envelope-to: mail@PENTIUMDIOXID
Received: from root by PENTIUMDIOXID with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
id 12jRGa-0000PD-00
for <mail@PENTIUMDIOXID>; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:38:00 +0200
From: root@PENTIUMDIOXID (Cron Daemon)
To: mail@PENTIUMDIOXID
Subject: Cron <mail@PENTIUMDIOXID> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f
/etc/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&1; fi
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/spool/mail>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mail>
Message-Id: <E12jRGa-0000PD-00@PENTIUMDIOXID>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:38:00 +0200
/bin/sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
Has anyone experienced this problem and can help me, please?
Kind Regards,
Stephan Hachinger
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