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Subject: Re: Non-empty /dev/null
Message-ID: <3980@root44.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 06:15:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 22 06:15:13 1983
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I've seen the same problem on an ONYX that had not had the permissions
on /dev set properly. Once your handy neighbourhood moron has typed
 'rm /dev/null'
and got away with it, you see all sorts of interesting stuff in response to
 'cat /dev/null'
until the next
 'if grep xxx foo >/dev/null; then .....'
clears it out again.
Quit honestly, the state of access permissions on a lot of commercially
available U*IX is a disaster. The ONYX is no worse than others.
Perhaps somebody out there would like to write a shell script that
gets things about right and then post it somewhere handy to save us all
a lot of time? I don't suppose it will happen, but one can dream.

Mike Banahan.