Asking here because I know some other people use Linode. (For people who don't know, a Linode is a UML image provided by linode.com. One important thing to note is that using a Linode means I am using a kernel build of theirs, not a distro provided kernel. Nor do I have opportunity to build my own.)
I have a Linode running Ubuntu 5.10, which I upgraded from their Ubuntu 4.10 image (via Hoary/5.04). It has ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standard installed, so udev is installed as a dependency. The other day I changed from using a 2.4 kernel to their 2.6 kernel: # uname -a Linux [hostname] 2.6.15-linode16 #1 Wed Jan 4 17:30:25 EST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Since this upgrade, I am not getting the correct permissions on some /dev nodes, in particular: # ls -l /dev/null crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-04-30 11:54 /dev/null This is causing a fair number of problems on my system: many processes expect to be able to redirect or write to /dev/null. I understand udev is meant to take care of making the device nodes for me and setting the correct permissions, what do I need to change about it? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
