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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:44:01 -0400
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: 4.8-STABLE /dev/null issue
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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