Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:40:47 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior with /dev/null Message-ID: <20030111154047.GB12302@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <3E202D83.1000302@potentialtech.com> References: <20030111152722.GA12302@keyslapper.org> <3E202D83.1000302@potentialtech.com>
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On 01/11/03 09:43 AM, Bill Moran sat at the `puter and typed: > 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). That did the trick, and now my menus are working as expected. Thanks a bunch! Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons. -- Dr. David Butler, British psephologist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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