From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 18: 3:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hollowman.mweb.co.za (hollowman.mweb.co.za [196.2.46.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A314237B409 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from siberiyan.dyndns.org ([196.30.182.2]) by hollowman.mweb.co.za (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <0GK5003BH6XDEB@hollowman.mweb.co.za> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:03:20 +0200 (SAST) Received: by siberiyan.dyndns.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:03:36 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:03:36 +0200 From: Piet Delport Subject: Re: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4... In-reply-to: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net> To: Sean Chittenden Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: Sean Chittenden , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20010924030336.A3376@athalon> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0ax BETA (http://www.vim.org/) X-Crypto: gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6 (http://www.gnupg.org/) X-GPG-Key-ID: 0x6B191427 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7FF A540 2199 F7BF 1933 5640 CD15 0FF3 6B19 1427 References: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net> 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 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 at 17:52:13 -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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? Hmm, it's still marked with the sign of the beast here. $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 23 07:47 /dev/null $ uname -a FreeBSD athalon 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #9: Sun Sep 23 07:40:24 SAST = 2001 root@athalon:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHALON i386 $ --=20 Piet Delport Today's subliminal thought is: --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE7roZozRUP82sZFCcRAnEZAKCSIFImOWZSdjR6Djl99l4+MIn/mACgiZ/9 4q0mYboMLdJH9TPwHdmQyRA= =6yuj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message