Philippe Coulonges wrote on Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:02:39PM +0200 : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > At level 4, msec now changes the attributes of /dev/null. Why ?
As others have mentioned, that's not an msec doing, but part of an
rpm upgrade that did something a little weird.
> The first time I just changed the permission back, but I now have another
> problem.
> [root@betti uprecords]# ll /dev/null
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 sep 11 22:00 /dev/null
> [root@betti uprecords]# chmod 777 /dev/null
> chmod: ?chec d'obtention des attributs de `/dev/null': No such file or
> directory
Look at that very carefully. That is a real file, not a device node.
You need to delete that file and then let devfs create it for you when
it gets accessed. If you are not using devfs, then you need to manually
create it. Use the mknod command to make it look like this:
[todd@fiji ~/uml]$ vdir /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/null
Blue skies... Todd
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