From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt2AN-0005To-Tj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:46:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EBiQ5T032599; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:44:26 GMT Received: from smtp003.bizmail.yahoo.com (smtp003.bizmail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EBa57s023304 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:36:05 GMT Received: (qmail 85951 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2005 11:36:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.165.174?) (sean@systura.com@67.70.223.82 with plain) by smtp003.bizmail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2005 11:36:10 -0000 From: Sean Higgins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:52:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200507141107.05553.rennadp@katamail.com> In-Reply-To: <200507141107.05553.rennadp@katamail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507140652.57011.sean@systura.com> X-Archives-Salt: d8ea9d13-0e63-4e8c-b389-8af68c3412db X-Archives-Hash: 9cfe1b1f8b4349554aaf717cf96b9e7f Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, this file sets the permissions of devices during boot. My line in that file is: null:root:root:0666 which sets the permissions to 0666 which is what you expect. I had problems with some other devices, like misc/nvram, and had to make modifications to the file. Sean On Thursday 14 July 2005 05:07 am, renna wrote: > hi to all > i'm having some problems, with, i think, the permissions > of /dev/null /dev/console and /dev/zero. every time i boot they're set up > to 660, like this > > crw-rw---- 1 renna root 5, 1 Jul 13 17:04 /dev/console > crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/null > crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/zero > > so when i login as a normal user, i get > /dev/null: Permission denied > > and i have to > chmod 666 /dev/null > > to be able to login in kde > > furthermore, in kde, when i launch konsole, the window of konsole shows up, > but there's only the cursor blinking, and i cannot enter commands - i have > to ctrl+alt+fn to a terminal > and allways in kde, when i launch a program that requires root's password, > as kuser, i get a window with this message > > The program 'su' is not found; > make sure your PATH is set correctly. > > though su, which is perfectly working in a terminal, is in /bin which IS in > my PATH > > i really don't know if these problems in kde are correlated with the > permissions in dev, but on google i found many persons having problems with > udev and having more or less the same problems (though i couldn't find a > solution to my case). i tried, as explained on > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml#doc_chap3 > to mknod new null and console in /dev, but when i boot the permissions are > again set to 660. > does somebody have an idea of what i should do? if there's some information > i lacked to give please ask > thanks -- Sean Higgins, sean@systura.com http://www.systura.com - "Where information becomes knowledge." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list