Eric on 4 Aug 2009 18:07:57 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] sftp weirdness


sean finney wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0400, Eric wrote:
>   
>> Steve identified the problem...  /dev/null had permissions of 600  
>> (crw-------)
>> I did a sudo chmod 666 /dev/null and sftp is now working!!
>>     
>
> that's really odd, but definitely one more thing to keep in the
> mental checklist next time :)  did you remove udev from this system?
>
>
> 	sean
>   

Uh, no.  How would I remove udev?  (I know - I know:  "apt-get remove 
udev" :-)

What adverse effects would result, if any?  This system is a web 
server.  Any impact there?  I don't even know what udev is!

Eric

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