Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:49:48 -0500 From: Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why the mode of /dev/null is changed after system reboot? Message-ID: <1099338588.24107.19.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> In-Reply-To: <20041101173050.GA66108@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <148cabbc04103117195de9fe4e@mail.gmail.com> <20041101173050.GA66108@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 09:30 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:19:12AM +0800, Iva Hesy wrote: > > I have a gateway running FreeBSD 4.10-p3. Normally, the mode of > > /dev/null should be 666, but recently, I find that its mode is changed > > to 600 automatically after reboot, I have checked all /etc/rc* and > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*, but I can't get anything that led to it...:-( > > Probably a local error. Try changing scripts to #!/bin/sh -x and > carefully watch (or log) the boot process. Start with any local > scripts you have since it's most likely to be a problem there. > > Kris Actually I have found this happening on my 4.10 boxen as well. I thought it was some one-time glitch and just chmodded the thing back. Didn't even think about it until I saw this post. I will try to see if I can catch the circumstances surrounding it if it happens again.
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