Hi John, On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:05:42PM +0000, John Masters wrote: > 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 can think of no reason why anyone would provision a server of any sort with a /dev/null that is a regular file, so I suspect a mistake somewhere. Also I suspect it has not been in that state for a long time, as so many things redirect their output to /dev/null that it would quickly grow to fill the filesystem. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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