From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 7 22:54:42 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 22:54:40 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C3C37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 22:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA71474; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:54:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:54:38 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Kevin Mills Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: bad namelist In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message