OK, i did a stupid thing while hurriedly cleaning up the filesystem. Apparently i must have forgotten a > when i cat'd something to /dev/null and now the box is royally messed up. When i comes up it complains of course, and wants the filesystem repaired. I drop to a unix shell and all partitions come back clean with fsck.ext3, however, /dev/null is still a file with perms of -rw-r--r-- and i cannot figure out how to repair this. First, how can i change null to be a, i believe, character device with correct perms (i.e. crw-rw-rw), And secondly, how can i do this on a read-only file system. The box boots with grub so i am not sure how to bring it up in single user mode, even tho i believe that would fail anyway, same reasons as above Does anyone have any real quick advice and suggestions on how to get this box back up?? MANY MANY thanks in advance Michael Weiner -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list