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1 <qandaentry id="perm-denied">
2 <question><para>I'm getting `/dev/null: Permission denied'</para></question>
3 <answer><para>Does /dev/null look like this:
4 <screen>$ ls -l /dev/null
5 crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root       1,   3 Aug  3  2000 /dev/null
6 </screen>
7 If not, it should.
8 See the chmod(1), chown(1), and mknod(1) man pages
9 and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt if you need help fixing it.
10 </para>
11 <para>If it does look right,
12 the problem is probably your mount options.
13 See the answer to "<link
14 linkend="bad-interpreter-permission-denied">./configure: bad
15 interpreter: Permission denied</link>", above.
16 </para></answer>
17 </qandaentry>