It may be related to your groups. I run Gentoo and my user id is in the following groups: tty wheel floppy audio cdrom video games cdrw usb users. I can use /dev/null even though the owner of it is root:root. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? ----- Original message ----- From: bradyh at bitstream.net To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:15:42 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [tclug-list] Gentoo Problems Just setup a new gentoo box and I'm running into permission problems. I get an error when I log in as a regular user saying that I don't have permission to access /dev/null. When I check.../dev/null is chmod 600. I can get rid of that error by chmodding it to 666 but it changes back any time I reboot. Also I can't run startx unless I'm either logged in as root or set my user to have group root. But when I do that I can't start terminals in Gnome - it says "There was an error creating a child process for this terminal". Anybody seen this before? Thanks for any help, Brady _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list