On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:56:31PM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > Only root can run X windows and certain other programs on my machine. > I'm not sure whether I inadvertently changed something. This wasn't a > problem before. Other programs behave the same way, for example if I use > "which" as a user, the system responds: > > /usr/bin/which: /dev/null: Permission denied > /usr/bin/which: /dev/null: Permission denied > > I checked the permissions and thy are set to 755, i.e world executable > and readable. > > Any ideas how what this could be?
/dev/null is supposed to be world readable and writable (rw-rw-rw-). Is it? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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