It is your dev settings stored in /etc/devfsd.conf (if you use devfs) or /etc/udev/* (if you use udev, probably this for a fresh install) I used to have a similar problem with dev null and with my nvidia dev interface, I could not start anything 3D like neverwinter nights until I chmod'ed it to 666. So I finally went into my devfs settings. My Gentoo install was installed about 3 years ago and I have not switched over to udev. I have a recently installed Gentoo amd64 box using udev, here is a sample of some of my udev files. jus at kronos /etc/udev $ grep null */* permissions.d/50-udev.permissions:null:root:root:0666 rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="null", NAME="%k", MODE="0666" scripts/cdsymlinks.sh: local DEVLS="`ls -dl \"/dev/$2\" \"/dev/$2\"[0-9]* 2>/dev/null`" jus at kronos /etc/udev $ HTH On Thursday 15 September 2005 11:32 pm, Brock Noland wrote: > I have setup at least 30 gentoo installs and I have never seen that > before...... > > brock at www brock $ ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/null > brock at www brock $ groups > users wheel apache > brock at www brock $ echo hello > /dev/null > > Brock > > On 9/15/05, Isaac Atilano <aristophrenic at warpmail.net> wrote: > > It may be related to your groups. > > I run Gentoo and my user id is in the following groups: tty wheel floppy > > audio cdrom video games cdrw usb users. I can use /dev/null even though > > the owner of it is root:root. > > > > > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? > > > > ----- Original message ----- > > From: bradyh at bitstream.net > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:15:42 -0500 (CDT) > > Subject: [tclug-list] Gentoo Problems > > > > Just setup a new gentoo box and I'm running into permission problems. I > > get an error when I log in as a regular user saying that I don't have > > permission to access /dev/null. When I check.../dev/null is chmod 600. > > I > > can get rid of that error by chmodding it to 666 but it changes back any > > time I reboot. > > > > Also I can't run startx unless I'm either logged in as root or set my > > user > > to have group root. But when I do that I can't start terminals in Gnome > > - > > it says "There was an error creating a child process for this terminal". > > > > Anybody seen this before? > > > > Thanks for any help, > > Brady > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list