On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jon Marler wrote: > I figured it out ... > > The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. I set > them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. Whatever did this is a bug. /dev/null should be 0666 by default. If you have an idea on what the offending program is, it would help. If you goofed while logged in as root, shame on you :-) Brandon (who missed the beginning of the thread)