OK, I've done so like you told me. It now works. I also mailed the selection list.
Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Stephan Hachinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 8:16 PM > Subject: Re: /dev/null: permission denied - problem > > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > > > > At least since I mixed my slink system with potato packages (glibc 2.1) > a > > > couple of months before, I have a problem with /dev/null. Firstly, lprng > > > reported at startup: "setuplog: open /dev/null failed: permission > denied" (I > > > "fixed" it by installing lpr which does not complain about it), and now > > > since I installed exim correctly, I always get mails like this one: > > > [...] > > > /bin/sh: /dev/null: Permission denied > > > > > > Has anyone experienced this problem and can help me, please? > > > > /dev/null should be writeable by everybody, if it is not, please do: > > > > chmod 666 /dev/null > > > > BTW: There is a user who reported a similar problem. So far, we have been > > unable to discover which package exactly is the responsible for that. > > Could you please post the output of "dpkg --get-selections" to the > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] address? (if you think it is not sensitive > > information, of course). > > > > I have asked the same to the other user, hopefully we will be able to > > compare both lists and see what common packages do you have. > > > > Thanks. > > >