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Re: postgres install fails on sid



Hi John,

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:05:42PM +0000, John Masters wrote:
> I've chmod 666 /dev/null and now postgres installs OK. However I
> hesitate to go further as this server is on a VPS. Could that be why the
> perms were not set properly?

I can think of no reason why anyone would provision a server of any
sort with a /dev/null that is a regular file, so I suspect a mistake
somewhere.  Also I suspect it has not been in that state for a long
time, as so many things redirect their output to /dev/null that it
would quickly grow to fill the filesystem.

Cheers,
Andy

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