From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 23:49:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C3437B406 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3DA43E09 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:49:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67682B8D3; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:49:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 35E266A711E; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:49:38 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:49:38 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Device permissions problems after 4.5 >> 4.6 upgrade Message-ID: <20020628164938.C79950@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kevin_stevens@hotmail.com on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:21:38PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:21:38PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: > I upgraded my 4.5 system to 4.6 last week by DLing the floppy images, > booting from them, and doing an FTP upgrade. All seemed ok, however, I'm > now discovering problems with access permissions, particularly in the /dev > directory. For example, /dev/null and /dev/urandom were owned by > root:wheel, with crw------ permissions, which buggered up ssh and a variety > of other things. That's not a good thing... Try 'MAKEDEV std' in /dev, they will remake the standard devices. Or 'MAKEDEV all', which will make all of them. If I recall correctly the daily scripts will catch it if the permissions on a device change, maybe you can find if it really was the upgrade or some port which tried to be funny. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message