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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Accepted Answer
Hello,
The permissions do not really look correct. What you could do in this case is just recreate the /dev/null. You can do that with the following commands:
- Login as root to your droplet, and then run:
rm /dev/null
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
chmod 666 /dev/null
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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