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On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:03:11AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Brent Casavant wrote:
>=20
> >Not with FreeBSD in particular.  However, from time to time I've
> >run across a piece of software that makes bad assumptions about
> >deleting various input or output files.  If run as root, the
> >program/library might accidentally delete a character special
> >device such as /dev/null.
>=20
> Hmm, that's... inconvenient. I usually support "root-almighty" thing,=20
> but allowing deletion from dynamically populated /dev seems=20
> counterproductive.

The command 'devfs rule -s 2 apply 100' should fix it, I think.

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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