something mess-up with /dev/null permissions

[Pal, Laszlo (private)]

Hi,

It seems this event triggered by starting a virtual machine (virsh start
fedora20). This command changes /dev/null permission to a wrong one...
is this some configuration issue or should I fill a bug?

Thx
L:



On 05/20/2014 08:13 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Pal, Laszlo (private) wrote:
>> Recently I've discovered a strange thing... some rule/program or
>> whatever changing the access rights of /dev/null to
>>
>> crw-------. 1 root root 1, 3 May 20 11:57 /dev/null
>>
>> and some of the part of Fedora does not like it:)
>>
>> After I change back to 666, everything is fine again, however after boot
>> I have again the "wrong" permission
>>
>> is this a bug or feature?:)  What can cause this? After google the
>> problem, I can find some very old bug, so maybe it is back again
>>
>> Any idea?
>
> That is not normal.
>
> You could setup an auditctl rule to watch /dev/null for permission
> changes. There is a manpage (and exhaustive support on Google) for
> auditctl.
>