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Re: can't run X - permission denied



On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:56:31PM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote:
> Only root can run X windows and certain other programs on my machine.
> I'm not sure whether I inadvertently changed something. This wasn't a
> problem before. Other programs behave the same way, for example if I use
> "which" as a user, the system responds:
> 
> /usr/bin/which: /dev/null: Permission denied
> /usr/bin/which: /dev/null: Permission denied
> 
> I checked the permissions and thy are set to 755, i.e world executable
> and readable.
> 
> Any ideas how what this could be?

/dev/null is supposed to be world readable and writable (rw-rw-rw-).
Is it?

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