On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:38:30PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > 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) > > It was set that way by default. Also, /tmp was set 0600 root.root That caused a few install problems. The CD I used is a slink CD from Cheap Bytes called "Essential Debian" Jon jmarler@istrength.net
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