Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:15:44 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod 666 /dev/null Message-ID: <3AC22A50.6AAE12A5@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010328201255.A1877@enigma.whacky.net>
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Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > I just rebooted my machine with the cvupped-and-compiled world > and kernel, I logged on and did the following: > > (stephanb@enigma|ttyp4)~> w > w: /dev/null: Permission denied > > Checking out /dev/null gave me this: > crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Mar 28 20:00 /dev/null > > I had to chmod it to 666 again in order for me as non-root > to do a 'w' ... my question. Why this behaviour ? > > I've been running FreeBSD for years, but this puzzles me I've also saw this once, but still wonder what the reason was. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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