hi,
Trevor Fraser wrote: > Hello. > > I've tried chmod before and again now, but no change. Something that might > help in solving the problem, is that when I login as any user, I get the > message: > > bash: /dev/null: Permission denied > > repeated 3 times. this is a little strange, but will go away if we get /dev/null fixed. sometimes this is only a symlink to /dev/zero so does ls -l /dev/null and ls -l /dev/zero show? > > The other thing is when I type in lsmod to list the modules currently > running, the st and ide-scsi have a 0 under the 'used' collumn, and nothing > under the 'by' collumn, or is it one collumn?, but you get the point. Surely > they should be in use. Nope, they may be used, but they don't have to be used.... The usecount of 0 is ok, as long as no program is acessing the tapedrive. This counter shows more or less a semaphore, if it is 0 the module can be unloaded using rmmod. The field "by" only is none 0 if the module is used by another kernelmodule, and then shows the name of the module(s) using it. Christoph
