On 19:14 Sun 07 Oct , Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 16:35:44 +0000, John Masters wrote: > > On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +0000, John Masters wrote: > > > > I have posted this to the Postgres list also. > > > > > > > > Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. > > > > At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- > > > > > > > > pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start > > > > > > > I would start with the first problem that is reported: "sh: /dev/null: > > > Permission denied". What are the permissions of the /dev/null node on > > > your system? It should be writable by anyone: > > > > > > $ ls -l /dev/null > > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-10-07 14:28 /dev/null > > > > > Thanks, that seems to be the problem. permissions for /dev/null > > are -rw-r--r-- > > > > What is the c part of the permissions and how do you set it? I have > > googled and searched my books but all I can find is that it is a > > character device file but no mention of how to set the attribute. > > The "c" means that it is a special file to begin with; you cannot just > set this property for an existing normal file. Such special files used > to be created with the "mknod" command, but nowadays udev should take > care of their creation. > > > Would it be OK to just chmod 666? > > The permission error will probably be gone then, but it would still be a > normal file and not a real /dev/null, which is used to dump the output > of all sorts of commands that are called in scripts. (The job of > /dev/null is to swallow input without a trace.) > > I've chmod 666 /dev/null and now postgres installs OK. However I hesitate to go further as this server is on a VPS. Could that be why the perms were not set properly? I have been running this server for about 3 weeks just with a basic mail setup - Postfix/Courier/Procmail passing all mail through Spamassassin on another server, so some of the obvious spam I have been sending to /dev/null which seems to work. I am unfamiliar with the deployment of VPS's, I just use them, so I assume this should have been setup when the VPS was created.
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