From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 17 9:58:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tulxmail01.pennnet.com (tulxmail01.pennnet.com [205.157.169.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D9337B405 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tulxmail01.pennnet.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) id ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:58:29 -0500 Message-ID: <1B300E3E1EDE834D806F30F96F6DB308A27E06@tulxmail01.pennnet.com> From: Barry Boone To: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:58:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C21620.3361FEE0" 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 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C21620.3361FEE0 Content-Type: text/plain I ran into this, except for me the error was "w: /dev/null: " 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. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C21620.3361FEE0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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           &n= bsp; TTY      = FROM           &n= bsp;  LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
>
>
> chip#
>
>
> I'm running 4.6-stable from last night.

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