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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:58:27 -0500
From:      Barry Boone <BarryB@pennnet.com>
To:        "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Message-ID:  <1B300E3E1EDE834D806F30F96F6DB308A27E06@tulxmail01.pennnet.com>
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I ran into this, except for me the error was "w: /dev/null: <and some
permissions error>" which I only got as the non-root user.  The fix for me
was to chmod /dev/null back to 666 (somehow it got chmoded to 600).  This
was on 4.5-STABLE.


On Monday 17 June 2002 20:07, Gavin Cameron wrote:
> When I run the 'w' command on my box I get am error as shown here...
>
> chip# w
> w: /dev/:0: No such file or directory
>  6:03PM  up 20:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.39, 0.55
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
>
>
> chip#
>
>
> I'm running 4.6-stable from last night.

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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I ran into this, except for me the error was &quot;w: /dev/null: &lt;and some permissions error&gt;&quot; which I only got as the non-root user.&nbsp; The fix for me was to chmod /dev/null back to 666 (somehow it got chmoded to 600).&nbsp; This was on 4.5-STABLE.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Monday 17 June 2002 20:07, Gavin Cameron wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt; When I run the 'w' command on my box I get am error as shown here...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt; chip# w</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt; w: /dev/:0: No such file or directory</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt;&nbsp; 6:03PM&nbsp; up 20:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.39, 0.55</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt; USER&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TTY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FROM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOGIN@&nbsp; IDLE WHAT</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt; chip#</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>&gt; I'm running 4.6-stable from last night.</FONT>
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