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by **Leo** » Tue, 10 Jun 1997 04:00:00

Hi !
Here is a mysterious thing that happens on my RedHat 3.03:
the permission on the /dev/null node keep on changing
from crw-rw-rw- which is i think normal
to crw-rw-rw- which is *very* ennoying, because lots of prgrams can't
start when they redirect stderr...
It seems to me that a process (maybe a * one) does this dirty joke
:)

Any help is welcome.

Leo.

by **Michael** » Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:00:00

::> Hi !
::> Here is a mysterious thing that happens on my RedHat 3.03:
::> the permission on the /dev/null node keep on changing
::> from crw-rw-rw- which is i think normal
::> to crw-rw-rw- which is *very* ennoying, because lots of prgrams can't

Excuse me. You said changing from crw-rw-rw- to crw-rw-rw-? What's the
difference? :)

::> start when they redirect stderr...
::> It seems to me that a process (maybe a * one) does this dirty joke
::> :)
::>
::> Any help is welcome.

Sorry, can't help. Never notice that

::> Leo.

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by **Leo** » Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:00:00

> ::> Hi !
> ::> Here is a mysterious thing that happens on my RedHat 3.03:
> ::> the permission on the /dev/null node keep on changing
> ::> from crw-rw-rw- which is i think normal
> ::> to crw-rw-rw- which is *very* ennoying, because lots of prgrams can't

> Excuse me. You said changing from crw-rw-rw- to crw-rw-rw-? What's the
> difference? :)

Execuse-me, you're right , i meant the permissions change from :
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 3 Jan 1 1980 /dev/null
to
crw------- 1 root sys 1, 3 Jan 1 1980 /dev/null

Is this problem ringing a bell to anyone ?

Or at least if someone has an idea how to track this change...

Thanx

Leo

by **Brian McCaule** » Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:00:00

> Here is a mysterious thing that happens on my RedHat 3.03:
> the permission on the /dev/null node keep on changing
> from crw-rw-rw- which is i think normal to crw-rw-rw-

Hmmm.... that is odd! :-)

Try grepping all the scripts in /etc/... for the string "/dev/null".
This stands a good chance of finding the culprit.

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by **Peter F. Curr** » Sat, 21 Jun 1997 04:00:00

>> Here is a mysterious thing that happens on my RedHat 3.03:
>> the permission on the /dev/null node keep on changing
>> from crw-rw-rw- which is i think normal to crw-rw-rw-

>Hmmm.... that is odd! :-)

>Try grepping all the scripts in /etc/... for the string "/dev/null".
>This stands a good chance of finding the culprit.

Ummmm.... I don't see any changes a "culprit" would have
made! The permissions look the same to me!

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