Re: [gentoo-user] odd /dev/null beharvior

[Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>]

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I've experienced this problem before. The developers insist the ebuild
is absolutely correct, but it doesn't always attempt to migrate conf
changes to /etc/udev.

The easiest way to fix this problem permanently is to
$ sudo rm /etc/udev/{permissions,rules}.d/50-*
$ sudo emerge -av udev

This will blow away the default udev conf files that are causing you
problems, then re-emerge udev. The updated defaults will be installed in
the right place. This assumes you haven't touched the 50-* files (you
put all custom changes in 10-local, right).

-Chris


On 16:46 Sat 18 Feb     , James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> /dev/null is acting weird. The permissions have recently changes
> on a system I sync regularly. I can change the permissions back
> to 666, but every time the system reboots, dev null resets to:
> crw-rw----  1 root 1, 3 Jan 20 10:05 /dev/null
> 
> How to I make permanent changes so that /dev/null is 666 again?
> 
> Surely this is not part of some security issue that I missed?
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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Christopher Cowart
Unix Systems Administrator
Residential Computing, UC Berkeley
"May all your pushes be popped"

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