Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:03:36 +0200 From: Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4... Message-ID: <20010924030336.A3376@athalon> In-Reply-To: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net> References: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net>
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--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 <siberiyan@mweb.co.za> 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
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