From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 17:52:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0543B37B420 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26118 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Sep 2001 00:52:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:52:13 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4... Message-ID: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy. This question was originally framed as a "why doesn't uptime work for users in 4.4, when it used to in 4.3," but after looking into things further, it's now a "why is /dev/null set to mod 0600?" On a 4.3 system that I have, the perms on dev/null are 666. I've chmod'ed all of my boxen back to 0666, but... I'm curious as to why this happened and the rationale behind the change. I've observed this difference on at least 15 other 4.4 systems. What gives? -sc PS Build processes was: cd /usr/src make update make world make kernel KERNCONF=KERNNAME mergemaster -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message