James Knott wrote:
Martin Foster wrote:
After installing 9.1 Pro and using it for several hours, everything appeared to work alright. However, after switching the computer off for a while and then switching it back on again, I now find that I don't have access to /dev/null. If I fire up a terminal, I get the following line repeated 4 times before the prompt appears "bash: /dev/null: Permission denied". In addition, I now find that a number of applications complain about no access to /dev/null and simply will not run!
Any help with this would be appreciated, thanks.
What are the permissions set to? On my computer, they are crw-rw-rw-.
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