And if you updated solely through yum, /var/log/yum.log is a time-stamped list. It's unfortunate that /var/log/rpmpkgs doesn't have the same format. :( On 11/17/2010 02:54 PM JohnS wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Pruett wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 10:35 AM, Robert Heller wrote: >>> At Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:16:51 -0800 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: >>> >>>> it looks like one of the recent updates will sometimes chmod /dev/null >>>> to 600. out of 20 machines i've updated, 3 of them had the odd >>>> /dev/null perms afterwards. i haven't tried to identify what it doing >>>> it yet, but wanted to give a heads up to others that might start seeing >>>> weird behavior. >>> Look in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. My copy has the line: >>> >>> KERNEL=="null", MODE="0666", OPTIONS="last_rule" >>> >>> You haven't managed to mess with this rule? >> no changes to udev rules. and this happens immediately after the update >> is run, no reboot required. what is weird is that the config on the >> systems i run are pretty close to each other, so why only a few got hit >> by this is odd. i had one happen yesterday and thought i had just done >> something stupid, but then more popped up today immediately after doing >> updates, so that is why the warning. > ---- > Ok now for some work... Gather up a list of your RPMs you updated and > well check them all for /dev/null changes for te culprit. > > [ethan at midnight ~]$ rpm -q --scripts kernel-rt > postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): > /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel-rt --banner "EM2Grid Enterprise > Linux (realtime)" --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.24.7-149.el5rt || > exit $? > preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): > /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --rminitrd --rmmoddep --remove 2.6.24.7-149.el5rt > || exit $? > postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): > /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel-rt --banner "EM2Grid Enterprise > Linux (realtime)" --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.24.7-161.el5rt || > exit $? > preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): > /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --rminitrd --rmmoddep --remove 2.6.24.7-161.el5rt > || exit $? > > > John > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos