Permission denied on /dev/xvdf despite sudo?
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I'm trying to get a stream off port 9999 and write to /dev/xvdf. I'm using Amazon EC2 with the Ubuntu 11.10 server image. By default I log in as 'ubuntu' which has sudo privileges. However, when I run the following netcat command, I get this error
ubuntu@ip-10-252-35-122:~$ ls -al /dev/xv*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 202, 1 2011-11-30 22:22 /dev/xvda1…