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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:34:06 -0600
From:      Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org
Subject:   Re: Strange behavior with /dev/null
Message-ID:  <20030111093406.506874d5.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030111152722.GA12302@keyslapper.org>
References:  <20030111152722.GA12302@keyslapper.org>

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:27:23 -0500
Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> wrote:

> Strange behavior I'm getting since I last did a mergemaster and
> MAKEDEV in /dev:
> 
> cannot create /dev/null: permission denied
> 
> $ cat ConfigFvwmMenus > /dev/null
> -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/null
> crw-------  1 root  wheel    2,   2 Jan 11 10:00 /dev/null
> $ file /dev/null
> /dev/null: character special (2/2)
> 
> I am running 4.6.2-RELEASE #5.  What did I miss here?  I'm beginning
> to wonder if this may be causing some of my other problems with fvwm
> menu/keystroke xterm execution.
> 
Louis,

My 4.7-STABLE system shows:

BSD1># ls -la /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,   2 Jan 11 09:31 /dev/null


Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam@hiltonbsd.com

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