From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 31 09:14:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA08940 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 09:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (root@ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA08928 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 09:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (root@ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA25628 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 18:14:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 18:14:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Hartmann To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Access bits of /dev/null Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Sirs. Sometimes the system changes the access bits of /dev/null to 500, so some applications and utilities faile because they cant't write to /dev/null. Can anybody tell me how to solve the problem? It seems trivial, but changing the access bits have had no effect because after a while the system overrides these changes. I don't know where these changes are made, neither by cron, nor by rc. Has anybody ideas or a solution? Or is the problem a problem because managing a FBSD isn't my favourite profession ;-)) Best wishes, Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------- O. Hartmann Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de harto000@trudi.zdv.uni-mainz.de