On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:03 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:07:54 -0400 > >> brian wrote: > >> > >> > >>>> It means some script somewhere did an rm -f on /dev/null > >>>> then later some other script redirected output to /dev/null > >>>> thus creating it as a regular file. > >>>> > >>> It looks more like a typo, as another poster said (one L). > >>> > >> > >> Could be, but I had /dev/null deleted on a machine once and > >> the ensuing fun was really spectacular :-). > >> > >> Doing "whatever > /dev/null" wasn't too bad, but when > >> someone said "whatever < /dev/null" amazingly random things > >> could happen. > >> > >> > > The point is, it is not MY scripts doing this! I have had > > this bugger for quite some time on F9 and it does not > > go away! Grr. I just deleted it every time rkhunter > > reports it. Probably just ignore the darn thing.... > > Do NOT ignore it. I don't think you quite understand what /dev/null > is. It is supposed to be a device, not a file. Somehow it got deleted > and now whenever a script or something does a redirect of its output to > /dev/null, instead of going to a device (and thence into the bit > bucket), it creates a file called /dev/null. > > To fix it: > > 1. Do an "ls -Z /dev/null" and make sure there is no _regular_ file, > directory, symlink, pipe or anything else called "/dev/null". Check the > first character of the permissions. If it's anything other than a "c" > then delete the file (you may need to do an "rm -rf /dev/null" to kill > it). > > 2. As root, run "MAKEDEV -x null". That should recreate the device > file. > > 3. Run "ls -Z /dev/null" again and you should see something like: > > crw-rw-rw- root root system_u:object_r:null_device_t:s0 /dev/null > > displayed. If the first character of the permissions is NOT a "c", it > didn't work. You didn't ask if he was running selinux. ls -Z is overkill over ls -l and will not work if selinux in disabled. -- ======================================================================= Q: What is purple and concord the world? A: Alexander the Grape. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
