Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? >> >> ls -al /dev/null >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null > > This can happen if some program, e.g. an early init script, writes to > /dev/null before the device node for it is created. In this case, > redirection (foobar > /dev/null) will create it as a regular file.
Thanks for your replies. I suspect here hibernate! I don't know it very well, but I have problems after wake up from supsend or hibernate state. I have installed 2.6.31 (custom) recently, but don't think this is the reason. > >> Where do you fix this? > > I don't really have an explanation or a solution. To debug the problem, > reboot with init=/bin/bash added to the kernel command line and run the > scripts in /etc/rcS.d, one at a time (/etc/rcS.d/Swhatever start). > Check /dev/null after each script. > After I reboot it looks normal, so may be you are correct. It's either some script/hibernate or udev issue. It's not that urgent to fix today, but would be nice to have a solution. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org