From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932349AbWBDQS0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:18:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932500AbWBDQS0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:18:26 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.197]:62512 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932349AbWBDQSZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:18:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NzG0tvse7EhAUbQl8hw+5uoCugfpXe2dWjKyKoa0xEGSCSaQjxNgGs1yiMBn6RMaPMLtXXukX3Cd0Joqs8TZQZat6q1H/vMbCxr6IzFkkV++kE8WZqzildHU0rMkzWPPXnwzaC4/rHgFCNrlwIaQe4DKb0yBvB1nRNdQcTkYZow= Message-ID: <9a8748490602040818y72c59c67wc6b6bb1c3e40956b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:18:24 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: Ben Castricum Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc[12] weirdness Cc: Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <000701c629a4$5df090e0$0602a8c0@links> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <000701c629a4$5df090e0$0602a8c0@links> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2/4/06, Ben Castricum 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. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html