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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:51:29 -0400
From:      Adam McLaurin <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.
Message-ID:  <1062528689.95262.53.camel@jake>
In-Reply-To: <20030902111654.K11257-100000@jordan.llnl.gov>
References:  <20030902111654.K11257-100000@jordan.llnl.gov>

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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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