On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Rich Harran. wrote:
> Anyway, I'm still having trouble with my /dev/null, which sometimes
> reverts to permissions:
> rwx______
> when I reboot, causing X (and other) problems (it also did so after I had
> got X running today, possibly when I symlinked by ~/.netscape/cookies file
> to it). Could anyone please tell me why this happens, and how to stop it.
If the permissions change at boot it is probably in the startup scripts in
/etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d. You will have to search for a chmod command in
them:
grep 'chmod' /etc/rc.d/*
grep 'chmod' /etc/init.d/*
If you can find something like chmod 600 /dev/null comment it out.
I wonder that startup scripts do that. Most likely there is some other
problem that I haven't thought of.
I don't know about this thing with netscape. But the permissions of files
should not be changed by symlinks of normal users and programs running on
them. The files in /dev should not be owned by normal users and you should
not run netscape as root or something, but as normal user. If the cookies
symlink changes /dev/null permissions, you run netscape at root. Don't do
that!
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