Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[dizzy <dizzy73@xxxxxxxxxx>]

continuing weirdness here

When the machine booted I logged in as root and diddnt have any special
message.

But if I telnet to it (as a non root user) I get

bash: /dev/null: permission denied
bash: /dev/null: permission denied

This however dosnt cause a problem. Ill su to root then echo hello >
/dev/null no problem
but this is the same behaviour I was seeing before I rebooted and the
/dev/null got corrupt

I administer this machine via telnet because its in the basement in a
utility room. Sometime Ill leave a telnet session open for days. Does
anyone see a problem with that?


any ideas where or why /dev/null is getting passed to a normal logon and
what I can do to fix it?

after running the mknod /dev/null c 1 3

ls -lag /dev/null

crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 jun 24 2001 /dev/null

any help to fix this is greatly appreciated!

rob


dizzy wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > Is this correct?
> >
> > No it is not correct. /dev/null should be a character special device with
> > major number 1 and minor number 3
> >
> > rm /dev/null
> > mknod /dev/null c 1 3
> >
> 
> BINGO!!!!
> 
> that was the problem. Thank you very much. How my /dev/null got out of
> line I dont know, but that fixed it. System booted, performed fscks
> along the way. No errors!
> 
> thank you kind sir!