Re: open /dev/null failed

[ben curthoys]

ben curthoys wrote:

> > the user is not a member of the default "users" group, and therefore 
> > has access to pretty much nothing on the server apart from that folder. 
>
>
> that folder, and, it turns out, the CVSROOT folder, and that's it.

it turns out that whilst permissions on /dev/null looked ok, there was 
no access to the /dev folder itself. with that granted it now works. 
sorry to have bothered you =)