Configure Failed need red hat install help

[Wesley J Landaker]

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On Thursday 25 January 2001  8:25am, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Cindy Walsh:
> > > > crw-r--r--   1 root     root       1,   3 May  5  1998
> > > > /dev/null
> > >
> > > You have to ask your system administrator to make /dev/null
> > > world-writable.  Otherwise, many programs simply won't work.
> >
> > They have denied the request. Since I have several hosts placed
> > with that company, moving them now is not an option.
>
> Are they totally insane?
>
> Sorry, but that's terminally stupid.

I suppose they don't want to fill up their null device. Or perhaps they 
don't want arbitrary users (or worse, a hacker!) to be able to 
penetrate and corrupt their nullness. ;-)

Seriously, though--it sounds like whoever denied the request has NO 
idea what /dev/null is. Maybe you should talk to someone else at the 
company. Without the null device availble, lots of programs won't work.

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