I noticed something odd once I started using the latest 2.4.9-31 kernel
with XFS 1.1, and removed the 2.4.14 XFS 1.0.2 kernel that I had installed
(as an additional kernel...I just don't know if there's any correlation
between removing it and what's happening).
When I boot up, I've found that /dev/null is chmod 600 (rw-------).
This, of course, causes all sorts of problems, as a number of background
process I run are piped through /dev/null, and aren't necessarily run as
root.
It also causes me to not properly start up the KDE desktop when I log in.
I get a different desktop, from which I have to open an xterm, chmod 666
/dev/null, and then log out and back in, again.
I even went so far as to add "/bin/chmod 666 /dev/null" to my
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file, but it doesn't seem to have helped.
Any ideas on what I can do to remedy this on a more permanent basis?
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