reboot sets /dev/null to 0660

[Don Hayward <don@mote.org>]

I just installed gnome on a Sarge (currently update/upgraded) that had
been enlightenment.  Kernel is 2.6.8-2-k7.

When I reboot, /dev/null, /dev/urandom, /dev/random (and possibly
others) have 0660 permissions, disallowing access by several init.d
scripts that want to write to /dev/null, among other things, until I
manually change the permissions.

I've been searching for where and why in the boot sequence these are
being set, but with no luck.

I don't see anything in the logs I've checked (syslog, messages,
auth, daemon).  I'd appreciate any help or pointers.

Thanks.

Don