[plug] /dev/null settings

[Christian]

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?

You weren't running Netscape as root were you????  (A normal user
couldn't have reset the permissions so I'm guessing you were.)  If so
then bad, bad, bad idea...  If not then something funny happened and it
might be worth finding out what...