ken wrote:

> The fix of 'chmod a+rwx /dev/null'

First, don't make it executable, since that makes no sense.

> doesn't work since udev is dynamic and the change goes away after
> rebooting. I guess I need to put that line in an rc file someplace so
> it happens automagicly (or log in as root on the cmd line and do it
> by hand ... which does work!)
>
> Ideas?

You need to find out why your udev is broken. You should have a file
named /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules, and it should contain a line like
this:

KERNEL="null", NAME="%k", MODE="0666"

If it does have that, you need to find out what else might be messing
with it. It's definitely not a solution to have to manually fix
something at every boot!

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PeKaJe

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