From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 24 2:28:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09B6C37B414 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28442 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Sep 2001 09:28:27 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:28:27 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4... Message-ID: <20010924022827.B27608@rand.tgd.net> References: <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from "gavin@ury.york.ac.uk" on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at = 10:16:44AM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ 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 > > 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. Sounds plausible... I just finished bringing a few 4.2 systems up to 4.4 and they were just fine. I think you're right though in that the systems that were having the probs were tracking -STABLE and probably have had it like that since whenever the problem was in -RC and I just noticed it now. So long as it's no longer a problem, I'll mod the devices back to normal. Were /dev/null and /dev/urandom the only two that you noticed? urandom seems to be set correctly (0444). -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message