Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:16:44 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109241013580.36876-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net>
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Sean Chittenden wrote: > Howdy. This question was originally framed as a "why doesn't > uptime work for users in 4.4, when it used to in 4.3," but after looking > into things further, it's now a "why is /dev/null set to mod 0600?" On > a 4.3 system that I have, the perms on dev/null are 666. It's been brought up a couple of times on -stable since 4.4rc1 came out... I had the same problem, with /dev/null (and ISTR /dev/random) were both 0600. more recent mergemasters have not caused problems for me. Gavin -- "Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed." -- Carolyn Scheppner - - Gavin Atkinson - Head Of Computing - University Radio York - - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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