I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get
mysteriously changed by some unknown process to:
crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null
This has a devastating effect on user processes that want to open
/dev/null. Whenever my system starts acting funny, the first place
I look is at the permissions for /dev/null. When I find them changed
I go under root and execute:
chmod 666 /dev/null
to get things back to normal.
Has anybody seen this before? Have I got a hidden umask set up
wrong somewhere, or is one of my daemons the culprit? Or could
it be happening during the time that I run as root doing
system maintenance?
Ed Alley
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