File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.

[Adam McLaurin]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get
> mysteriously changed by some unknown process to:
> 
> 	crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null

That's very strange indeed. Have you tried using chflags to prevent the
permissions from being changed? This should do the trick, albeit a dirty
hack.

-- 
Adam McLaurin <blueeskimo at gmx.net>
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