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Date:      Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:54:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
To:        Kevin Mills <kmills@aventail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: bad namelist
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012080153230.59724-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <CCELKJNGPCOKBIFAKKGEGELHCOAA.kmills@aventail.com>

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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Kevin Mills wrote:

>> Is /dev/null existant with proper permissions?
>> Make sure its a special (char) file like above and not a normal
>>file.
>
>Thank you, Adam!!
>
>So I may learn from this experience, how did /dev/null end up with the
>wrong permissions?
>
>Thank you again!
>

Couldn't tell ya.  Either some process running is root did weird things to
/dev/null or some root user did.  I haven't had this happen to be, but I
think I recall someone else having this problem and solution somewhere on
a mailing list. 



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