Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:08:15 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why the mode of /dev/null is changed after system reboot? Message-ID: <20041102090724.K88773@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <1099338588.24107.19.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> References: <148cabbc04103117195de9fe4e@mail.gmail.com> <1099338588.24107.19.camel@lanshark.dmv.com>
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Sven Willenberger wrote: SW> > > I have a gateway running FreeBSD 4.10-p3. Normally, the mode of SW> > > /dev/null should be 666, but recently, I find that its mode is changed SW> > > to 600 automatically after reboot, I have checked all /etc/rc* and SW> > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*, but I can't get anything that led to it...:-( SW> > SW> > Probably a local error. Try changing scripts to #!/bin/sh -x and SW> > carefully watch (or log) the boot process. Start with any local SW> > scripts you have since it's most likely to be a problem there. SW> SW> Actually I have found this happening on my 4.10 boxen as well. I thought SW> it was some one-time glitch and just chmodded the thing back. Didn't SW> even think about it until I saw this post. I will try to see if I can SW> catch the circumstances surrounding it if it happens again. I remember I stepped into this once or twice in the past. Bad umask at mergemaster/MAKEDEV time possibly? Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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