From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 22 5:28:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B4437BBD2 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 05:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12trJm-000Fm6-00; Mon, 22 May 2000 13:28:22 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12trJl-000IM3-00; Mon, 22 May 2000 13:28:21 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:28:21 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Arun Sharma Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Wrong permissions on /dev ? Message-ID: <20000522132821.M15686@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000521233533.A8104@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000521233533.A8104@sharmas.dhs.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arun Sharma wrote: > There is a minor nit about the permissions on /dev. It was not readable > by others. So ps wouldn't work, because it could not open /dev/null. I noticed this when I tried a home-built 5.0 snapshot (/dev was mode 0700), I didn't report it though because I thought it might have been an artifact of my botched installation attempt on that machine. This was a clean 5.0 install, not an upgrade of any kind. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message