From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 21:34:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F7037B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexus.isprime.com (lexus.isprime.com [66.230.130.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2394A43F75 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sk@isprime.com) Received: from lexus.isprime.com (sk@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lexus.isprime.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h534YwcI084418 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sk@isprime.com) Received: from localhost (sk@localhost)h534YwUY084415 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: lexus.isprime.com: sk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Kupferschmidt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: 4.8-STABLE /dev/null issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 04:35:00 -0000 Hello, This may have been previously discussed, but I have yet to find a solution yet so looking to find some guidance here. I have a customer who has 2 servers, one is 4.8-RC and the other is 4.8-STABLE. No problems have been noted on his server with 4.8-RC, however the one running 4.8-STABLE seems to have some random /dev/null permission changes and I'm stumped. He runs a cron script (on both servers) and redirects the output to /dev/null, and everytime he does it on the 4.8-STABLE the permissions change from crw-rw-rw- to crw-r--r-- which is rather odd. Anytime I 'echo blah >/dev/null' just in a regular shell, nothing goes wrong, only when in cron. Errors reported in /var/log/maillog are something like this: Jun 2 21:06:56 diamond sm-msp-queue[97747]: h5316uZO097747: disconnect: open("/dev/null") failed: Permission denied Also, cron reports similar: Subject: Cron echo blah >/dev/null X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: cannot create /dev/null: permission denied I cvsup'd, rebuilt the world, mergemaster'd the system to the latest and still experience issues. Was there a change between 4.8-RC and 4.8-STABLE that is causing this that I am just overlooking here? Any advice is greatly appreciated, as of right now I am banging my head. Sincerely, Scott Kupferschmidt ISPrime, Inc. 866.502.4678 ext. 3 AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249