Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 19:30:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: LLT <llt@recol.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/null denied error Message-ID: <20000531193038.R99925@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <016701bfcb2a$b1b928b0$d15433cf@lan> References: <016701bfcb2a$b1b928b0$d15433cf@lan>
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LLT wrote: > Hi- > I got 4.0-stable installed and if I'm logged in as a regular > user and do a "ps" I get this error: > ps: /dev/null: Permission denied > > #ls -la /dev/null (as root) gives: > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 May 31 02:00 /dev/null > > What's going on? Is 4.0 different from 3.x? Thanks. Chances are the permissions on /dev are screwed. What does # ls -ld / /dev show? They should both be root:wheel, mode 0755. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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