Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:42:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Alley <alley1@llnl.gov> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: edalley@covad.net Subject: Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null. Message-ID: <20030903121233.D868-100000@jordan.llnl.gov>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ed Alley wrote: > >> I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null >> gets mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: >> >> crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, David Landgren wrote: >> ..., the moral of the story is, what have you installed recently? On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> ... It would have to be a root-owned process ... On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Scott Kupferschmidt wrote: >> I had the same problem and still unable to figure it out.. I thankyou all for the above comments. They were helpful to me in finding the problem: When I thought about it for a time I realized that it happens on days that I was doing administrative work as ROOT! It was NETSCAPE! running under root. It turns out that I periodically tweak our router via Netscape. If I happen to be logged in as root on my FreeBSD terminal when I log into the router with Netscape, then after I'm finished with my work and close Netscape, I find that the permissions on /dev/null have been reset to: crw-------. I'm running Netscape-4.76. I also have a late version of Mozilla installed which doesn't seem to mangle the file permissions on /dev/null the way Netscape does. I also don't need to be logged in as root when I run Netscape to tweak the router, it just happens that when I'm doing other administrative stuff I think to look at the router also. (:->) Ed Alley wea@llnl.gov
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