/dev/null settings

[derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net (Derek Martin)]

Today, Subba Rao gleaned this insight:

> The current permission on /dev/null are as follows,
> 
> crw-------   1 root     sys        1,   3 Jul 17  1994 null
> 
> Are these the default settings for /dev/null?

No... /dev/null should be set to mode 0666 -- it can only be used by root 
as you have it set now.  Probably not very desireable.


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Derek D. Martin              |  Unix/Linux Geek
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