From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 8:32:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FE837BBEC for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:32:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6HFUo008501; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:30:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" Cc: "'mhjoshi@att.net'" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Unix questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /dev/zero returns zero, but /dev/null returns the char \0 (the null char) // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: mhjoshi@att.net [mailto:mhjoshi@att.net] > >Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 8:57 AM > >To: questions@FreeBSD.org > >Subject: Unix questions > > > >2. What directory is known as "bin bucket in the sky." > > I believe you would be refering to /dev/null - anything put in there > dissapears into computer limbo and anything that reads from /dev/null is > always zero > > >5. If unmask is 022, the the following commands are > >executed. > >mkdir cat > >cat refer.txt > newpermiss > >what permissions will cat and newpremiss will have? > > The files will have mode 755 on creation. > > full access --> 777 > minus umask --> 022 > --------------------- > permision --> 755 > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but this is it to the best of my > understanding > > Gene Dinkey > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message