Weird behaviour with /dev/null

[Philip Lawatsch]

Hi,

It took me several hours to figure out what was going wrong with openssh 
on my systems.

I had the following situation:


Startet sshd, and it forked several times and then it died without any 
meaningful messages.

If is start it with -d it works like a charm.

The root of all these strange problems was that /dev/null was a regular 
file instead of the null device (my fault).

Would it be possible to add some error message or something like this in 
case openssh can write to / use /dev/null?


kind regards Philip Lawatsch