[plug] /dev/null settings

[Jason Nicholls]

Hey,

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:34:22AM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> Some of my cron jobs are writing their error messages to /dev/null.
> It was working fine until yesterday, when I choose to link the netscape
> "cookies" file to /dev/null. After that the cron job send me email with
> the following message.
> 
> /bin/sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
> 
> 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?

Well, usually everyone should have write access to /dev/null, ie:
	chmod 666 /dev/null
On my systems here (redhat) they are owned root.root.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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