Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:58:27 -0500 From: Barry Boone <BarryB@pennnet.com> To: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <1B300E3E1EDE834D806F30F96F6DB308A27E06@tulxmail01.pennnet.com>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C21620.3361FEE0 Content-Type: text/plain I ran into this, except for me the error was "w: /dev/null: <and some permissions error>" which I only got as the non-root user. The fix for me was to chmod /dev/null back to 666 (somehow it got chmoded to 600). This was on 4.5-STABLE. On Monday 17 June 2002 20:07, Gavin Cameron wrote: > When I run the 'w' command on my box I get am error as shown here... > > chip# w > w: /dev/:0: No such file or directory > 6:03PM up 20:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.39, 0.55 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > > > chip# > > > I'm running 4.6-stable from last night. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C21620.3361FEE0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.5.2654.45"> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>I ran into this, except for me the error was "w: = /dev/null: <and some permissions error>" which I only got as = the non-root user. The fix for me was to chmod /dev/null back to = 666 (somehow it got chmoded to 600). This was on = 4.5-STABLE.</FONT></P> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>On Monday 17 June 2002 20:07, Gavin Cameron = wrote:</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> When I run the 'w' command on my box I get am = error as shown here...</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>></FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> chip# w</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> w: /dev/:0: No such file or directory</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> 6:03PM up 20:23, 3 users, load = averages: 0.09, 0.39, 0.55</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> = USER &n= bsp; TTY = FROM &n= bsp; LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>></FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>></FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> chip#</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>></FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>></FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>> I'm running 4.6-stable from last night.</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C21620.3361FEE0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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