From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 24 2:16:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D2B37B40D for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f8O9Gi007678; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:16:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8O9GiS37056; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:16:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:16:44 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Subject: Re: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4... In-Reply-To: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, 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. It's been brought up a couple of times on -stable since 4.4rc1 came out... I had the same problem, with /dev/null (and ISTR /dev/random) were both 0600. more recent mergemasters have not caused problems for me. Gavin -- "Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed." -- Carolyn Scheppner - - Gavin Atkinson - Head Of Computing - University Radio York - - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message