From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jim Gifford" Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:16:43 +0000 Subject: Re: Strange udev problem Message-Id: <00ee01c4554f$a56d7d50$d100a8c0@W2RZ8L4S02> List-Id: References: <042401c45430$fd8c72e0$d100a8c0@W2RZ8L4S02> In-Reply-To: <042401c45430$fd8c72e0$d100a8c0@W2RZ8L4S02> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Troth" To: "Jim Gifford" Cc: "HotPlug Developer List" Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:03 AM Subject: Re: Strange udev problem > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jim Gifford wrote: > > The SMP machine is a server and has multiple tasks runnning. > > Is your SMP machine running a database? Maybe UDB? > > We do a lot with mainframe Linux, which means we do a lot with > IBM products. Something (I *think* it was IBM's UDB, but am > not certain) kept changing the permission bits on /dev/null > every time one certain virtual Linux got rebooted. I never > found out what because we have such a large flock of penguins. > > It could have been Websphere. Heck, maybe even Oracle. > > I attributed the problem to a bug in a start-up script. > If so, it's completely unrelated to HotPlug. > > -- R; > Everything worked on my system under udev026, it's just with 027 this problem started. I have reverted back and changed the files, and everything works fine. At least it appears that way, I will have to wait and see. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel