On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Christine Tran
<christine.t...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Tom Buskey <tbus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm running b130.ind
> > svcadm disable rpc/bind;svcadm enable rpc/bind gives this message
> > /lib/svc/method/rpc-bind[50]: /dev/msglog: cannot create [Permission
> denied]
> >
> > Any clues on what to do next?  I'd like to get NIS and NF running again?
> > --
>
> /dev/msglog is a symlink to this
>
> crw-------   1 root     sys       97,  1 Oct 27 14:28
> /devices/pseudo/sys...@0:msglog
>

Yep.


>
> Do you have a /dev/msglog?  Do you have a
> /devices/pseudo/sys...@0:msglog character special file?  Was the
> permissions of /dev/ or /devices directory mucked with in any way?
>

I probably ran devfsadm.

I modified the permissions on msglog to allow anyone to write.  That didn't
seem to help.


> For example, was one of those well-intentioned security audit script
> run?  Did you modify the rpc-bind method?  It takes human intervention
> for root not to be able to write to /dev, you should back-track and
> determine what was done to the system.
>

I was running fine and did a reboot to remove some unmounted disk drives.


>
> CT
>
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