Very Computer

I recently installed Solaris 8 on my sparc. I try to install inn and
squid, but neither work.
You can see the error messages I get below:

inn:

After this the program is aborted. When I start innd directly
it seems to work.

squid:

2000/05/08 21:05:13| FD -1: fcntl F_GETFL: (9) Bad file number
2000/05/08 21:05:13| FD -1: fcntl F_GETFL: (9) Bad file number
2000/05/08 21:05:13| FD -1: fcntl F_GETFL: (9) Bad file number
2000/05/08 21:05:13| FD -1: fcntl F_GETFL: (9) Bad file number

when I start squid it creates 5 squid processes that use very much of
the systems recources and it writes the above error messages about
a hundert times in cache.log, before I can kill all squid processes.
I feeded deja with this info and I found articles about problems with
/dev/null on Linux. I don't know what the problem could be as
everything worked perfectly with Solaris7.
Do you have any ideas?

thanks
Dennis

Something has deleted /dev/null, and the news account lacks write
access to /dev (if news had had write access, you would have a huge
plain file with "interesting" data in it by now ;-)

$ ls -lL /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       13,   2 May  8 22:49 /dev/null

To fix it:

Kjetil T.

your were mostly right.
/dev/null had the following atributes:

bash-2.03# ls -al /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         27 May  8 23:10 /dev/null ->

I first tried to rebuild the link alllthough it seemed correct, but this

was not the problem and did not fix it. Then I looked in /devices.

crw-------   1 root     sys       13,  2 May  8 23:27

I chmod the attributes and now it works.

crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       13,  2 May  8 23:27

thanks
Dennis