Re: /dev/null coming up as chmod 600 at boot?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike -

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Mike Burger wrote:

> I noticed something odd once I started using the latest 2.4.9-31 kernel
> with XFS 1.1, and removed the 2.4.14 XFS 1.0.2 kernel that I had installed
> (as an additional kernel...I just don't know if there's any correlation
> between removing it and what's happening).
>  
> When I boot up, I've found that /dev/null is chmod 600 (rw-------).

Any chance you're using devfs?  I don't know what /dev/null defaults to,
but if you're using devfs, that might explain the permission change not
sticking?

I have one of the 2.4.9-31-XFS prereleases running on my workstation,
and /dev/null permissions are fine.

-Eric

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