From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 15 10:50:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE0737BA7F; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FXR007H12WGHF@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:50:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA44859; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:49:18 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:49:17 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: SysctlFS In-reply-to: <20000715130156.B12982@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Bernd Walter Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Adrian Chadd , Matthew Dillon , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000715124917.D30847@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com> <20000714124327.A64283@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000714055311.C30847@holly.calldei.com> <20000715130156.B12982@cicely8.cicely.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, July 15, 2000, Bernd Walter wrote: > > The command used to "tell it to change permissions" is chmod. > > Devfs is supposed to work like a file system, not like a user > > level application. If I chmod 0600 /dev/null and reboot without > > issuing some odd 'syncdevfs' command, I want to be the only one > > who can write to the bitbucket when the system comes back up. > Do you really want this or is it OK to have default permissions > in singleuser mode and having this restored while going multiuser? In single user mode, sure. I imagine that the mount code should try to find the file, and if not, just use the attributes set in make_dev(9). -- |Chris Costello |Programming is an unnatural act. `---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message