I under stand that dnsmasq goes to user nobody and group dip by default, however it is unable to load a few of its file permission denied.

Jan  1 00:00:24 (none) kern.err dnsmasq[639]: failed to load names from /etc/hosts: Permission denied
Jan  1 00:00:24 (none) kern.err dnsmasq[639]: failed to read /etc/ethers:Permission denied
Jan  1 00:00:24 (none) kern.warn dnsmasq[639]: failed to access /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied

root@OpenWrt:/etc# ls -l ethers
-rw-r--r--    1 nobody   nogroup       100 Jan  1 00:09 ethers
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          102 Jan  2  2000 hosts
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           49 Jan  1 00:00 /tmp/resolv.conf

I do not see why it is unable to open these files, they are world readable.

root@OpenWrt:/etc# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 3.2M      2.8M    372.0k  89% /
none                      7.0M     16.0k      7.0M   0% /tmp

root@OpenWrt:/# free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        14376         6832         7544            0            0
Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        14376         6832         7544

I dont think I am having any file system problems... Anyone know how to check?

Any help would be great.

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Well I found what might be causing this problem it is the removal of dropbear then the installation of openssh-client and openssh-server... I dont know why yet but if someone could help it would be great.

Well I decied that the filesystem was curupt, not sure how, and cant prove it. However I  tftped a fresh img then re-setup the defaults and everything works again.

Jan  1 00:00:24 (none) kern.err dnsmasq[630]: failed to load names from /etc/hosts: Permission denied

(Last edited by revslowmo on 13 Sep 2005, 01:44)