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Problem with /dev/null - Permission denied

Posted on October 18, 2019

Hi all,

I think that I’ve messed up the /dev/null on my droplet. When I login with my non-root user I get the following error:

-bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

The permissions of the file are:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1, 3 Jul 10 19:38 /dev/null

Are those permissions wrong? Do I have to change them or do I need to recreate the file?

Thanks a lot!

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