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

To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: /dev/null coming up as chmod 600 at boot?
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:41:22 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.2.20020423104241.035c73f8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Seth Mos wrote:

> At 04:28 23-4-2002 -0400, 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).
> 
> There might very well be one.
> 
> >When I boot up, I've found that /dev/null is chmod 600 (rw-------).
> 
> I have XFS 1.1 here but I didn't install it using the RPM. I built from the 
> kernel-source rpm and installed it from there.
> 
> The /dev/null on this box still has 666 so I reckon that the file got 
> touched somewhere in the process of upgrading.
> 
> You should be able to chmod the file and the permission should stick.

I thought so, too, but I just rebooted, this morning, and the permissions 
were back to 600.


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