4.8-STABLE /dev/null issue

[Scott Kupferschmidt]

Hello,

I've followed those instructions and still a no go.  Enabled my crontab
line of:

* * * * * echo blah >/dev/null

And this is what happened:

crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2,   2 Jun  4 14:45 /dev/null

Subject: Cron <sk at diamond> echo blah >/dev/null

cannot create /dev/null: permission denied

If anyone else has some suggestions, please let me know.  This is starting
to become a rather big issue on 4.8-STABLE for me.

Sincerely,

Scott Kupferschmidt
ISPrime, Inc.
866.502.4678 ext. 3
AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote:

> Hi,
> The permissions on /dev/null is changed by some one. Please try
> 
> cd /dev
> rm null
> mknod null c 2 2
> chmod 666 null
> 
> regards
> SSR
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Scott Kupferschmidt <sk at isprime.com>
> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: 4.8-STABLE /dev/null issue
> >Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >This may have been previously discussed, but I have yet to find a solution
> >yet so looking to find some guidance here.
> >
> >I have a customer who has 2 servers, one is 4.8-RC and the other is
> >4.8-STABLE.  No problems have been noted on his server with 4.8-RC,
> >however the one running 4.8-STABLE seems to have some random /dev/null
> >permission changes and I'm stumped.
> >
> >He runs a cron script (on both servers) and redirects the output to
> >/dev/null, and everytime he does it on the 4.8-STABLE the permissions
> >change from crw-rw-rw- to crw-r--r-- which is rather odd.  Anytime I 'echo
> >blah >/dev/null' just in a regular shell, nothing goes wrong, only when in
> >cron.
> >
> >Errors reported in /var/log/maillog are something like this:
> >
> >Jun  2 21:06:56 diamond sm-msp-queue[97747]: h5316uZO097747: disconnect:
> >open("/dev/null") failed: Permission denied
> >
> >Also, cron reports similar:
> >
> >Subject: Cron <sk at diamond> echo blah >/dev/null
> >X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> >X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/sk>
> >X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> >X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=sk>
> >X-Cron-Env: <USER=sk>
> >
> >cannot create /dev/null: permission denied
> >
> >I cvsup'd, rebuilt the world, mergemaster'd the system to the latest and
> >still experience issues.  Was there a change between 4.8-RC and 4.8-STABLE
> >that is causing this that I am just overlooking here?
> >
> >Any advice is greatly appreciated, as of right now I am banging my head.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Scott Kupferschmidt
> >ISPrime, Inc.
> >866.502.4678 ext. 3
> >AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249
> >
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