What is going on here....

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Colin Watson schreef op 05-10-2017 1:03:

>> Make sure /dev/null is a special device.
>> 
>> And not a regular file.
> 
> That is indeed a thing that can go wrong and could cause a few kinds of
> problems, but it could not cause the problem above.  (Other than 
> obvious
> permission failures, the classic weird symptom you get on glibc-based
> systems when /dev/null has somehow ended up being a regular file is 
> that
> the daemon(3) library call fails, so various server processes will fail
> to start up properly - but ifconfig(8) doesn't daemonise, so that's not
> what's going on above.)

Right thanks, that indeed produces those daemon problems.