On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 at 17:52:13 -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> Howdy. This question was originally framed as a "why doesn't
> uptime work for users in 4.4, when it used to in 4.3," but after
> looking into things further, it's now a "why is /dev/null set to mod
> 0600?" On a 4.3 system that I have, the perms on dev/null are 666.
>
> I've chmod'ed all of my boxen back to 0666, but... I'm curious
> as to why this happened and the rationale behind the change. I've
> observed this difference on at least 15 other 4.4 systems. What
> gives?
Hmm, it's still marked with the sign of the beast here.
$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 23 07:47 /dev/null
$ uname -a
FreeBSD athalon 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #9: Sun Sep 23 07:40:24 SAST 2001
root@athalon:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHALON i386
$
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