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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:15:34 +0200
From: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net>
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Subject: Re: chmod 666 /dev/null
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Ouch .. ok this was meant to go to -stable.
 I don't know what made me sent this to -current.. damn.

I'll cc this reply to -stable. My apologies.

Anyway, I forgot to mention some into.. I do not have DEVFS in my
kernel and this is my kernel:

FreeBSD enigma.whacky.net 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Wed Mar 28 10:40:13 CEST 2001     root@enigma.whacky.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENIGMA  i386


On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:

> I just rebooted my machine with the cvupped-and-compiled world
> and kernel, I logged on and did the following:
> 
> (stephanb@enigma|ttyp4)~> w
> w: /dev/null: Permission denied
> 
> Checking out /dev/null gave me this:
> crw-------  1 root  wheel    2,   2 Mar 28 20:00 /dev/null
> 
> I had to chmod it to 666 again in order for me as non-root 
> to do a 'w' ... my question. Why this behaviour ?
> 
> I've been running FreeBSD for years, but this puzzles me
> 
> -Stephan
> 
> -- 
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