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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:51:29 -0400
Subject: Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.
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On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get
> mysteriously changed by some unknown process to:
>=20
> 	crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null

That's very strange indeed. Have you tried using chflags to prevent the
permissions from being changed? This should do the trick, albeit a dirty
hack.

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Adam McLaurin <blueeskimo@gmx.net>

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