Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:43:15 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior with /dev/null Message-ID: <3E202D83.1000302@potentialtech.com> References: <20030111152722.GA12302@keyslapper.org>
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Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Strange behavior I'm getting since I last did a mergemaster and > MAKEDEV in /dev: > > cannot create /dev/null: permission denied > > $ cat ConfigFvwmMenus > /dev/null > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied > > $ ls -l /dev/null > crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Jan 11 10:00 /dev/null My /dev/null is crw-rw-rw-. Don't know how it happened, but it sure seems like a simple permission problem. chmod 666 /dev/null should fix it (I would think). > $ file /dev/null > /dev/null: character special (2/2) > > I am running 4.6.2-RELEASE #5. What did I miss here? I'm beginning > to wonder if this may be causing some of my other problems with fvwm > menu/keystroke xterm execution. Obviously, it will cause problems any time someone other than root tries to write to /dev/null -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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