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Re: /dev/null coming up as chmod 600 at boot?

To: Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: /dev/null coming up as chmod 600 at boot?
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:32:07 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1019651934.2754.5.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On 24 Apr 2002, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 06:46, Mike Burger wrote:
> > 
> > I guess I can rpm -e devfsd and see if that helps.  I suppose devfsd was 
> > installed when I did the RH7.1 + SGI installation.
> 
> Yeah, that's why it's always better to backup/format/reinstall instead
> of upgrade. ;-)

It was a clean install, actually...with the 7.1 ISO set (when that was the 
current set).  The only things I've upgraded are on a package by package 
basis, including the kernels.

> I have XFS-1.1 on a Red Hat 7.2 here, running a fairly beefy MySQL
> database, and /dev/null is fine and dandy.
> 
> [florin@zoul florin]$ ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   3 Aug 30  2001 /dev/null

Yup...well, after removing the devfsd package, rebooting, resetting the 
permissions and rebooting again, it looks like all is well, finally.


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