Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:44:01 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-STABLE /dev/null issue Message-ID: <3EDC2791.9030305@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0306030038550.84480-100000@lexus.isprime.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0306030038550.84480-100000@lexus.isprime.com>
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Scott Kupferschmidt wrote: [ ... ] > He runs a cron script (on both servers) and redirects the output to > /dev/null, and everytime he does it on the 4.8-STABLE the permissions > change from crw-rw-rw- to crw-r--r-- which is rather odd. Anytime I 'echo > blah >/dev/null' just in a regular shell, nothing goes wrong, only when in > cron. I'd seen that happen once or twice recently; I thought maybe mergemaster had done it. It's absolutely worth filing a pr about this, as more than a few things break (like sendmail, as you saw) if they can't talk to /dev/null. -- -Chuck
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