From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 13 18:10:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail-green.research.att.com (H-135-207-30-103.research.att.com [135.207.30.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1C637B413 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-green.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A2A1E032; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA06918; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:10:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id SAA06553; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109140110.SAA06553@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: spider@ffm.lublin.pl Subject: Re: Problem 4.4 /dev Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:10:35 -0700 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2j/makemail 2.9b Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had my 4.4 mergemaster running MAKEDEV turn lots (all? I dunno) of devices mode 600 or 400. This caused ssh no end of grief when /dev/*random was unreadable, but because of ssh's poor error reporting it wasn't until w reported /dev/null: permission denied that I figured out what was going on. I was unable to replicate the problem, but perhaps this is what's happening for you. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message