Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:18:24 +0100 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc[12] weirdness |
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On 2/4/06, Ben Castricum <lk@bencastricum.nl> wrote: > I just want to report a couple of things I think are kernel related (since > they only occur when I run 2.6.16-rc*) but are too weird to be sure. > [snip] > > My /dev/null device gets replaced by a file. Some of my cronjobs have a > >/dev/null and can see the ouput of the scripts in /dev/null. Deleting the > file and recreating the device again is fixes this. And again.. this seems > to happen randomly. > You are probably building your kernels as root. There's a problem in kbuild that causes it to replace /dev/null with a regular file on some systems - it's been fixed but the fix is not yet in mainline. But, you shouldn't be building kernels as root anyway.
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