On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 12:19:04PM -0800, Bodo Bauer stated:
Hi,
/dev/zero is kind of opposite to /dev/null. You can use /dev/zero as a source for null bytes. Gor example you can create a 10k file full of null bytes with the command: dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1024 count=10
SuSEconfig checks several file permissions (this is a security feature) and resets them if the don't fit /etc/permissions. To make the change of the permissions permanent change the line
/dev/zero root.root 644
in /etc/permissions to
/dev/zero root.root 666
They are set to 644 cause it doesn't make any sense to write to /dev/zero...
Many thanks for the explanation about this. I never understood why wabi would want to write to something that contains null bytes; but I guess it checks permissions as it starts. I made the change in /etc/permissions so I do not have to reset the /debv/zero after each running of suseconfig.
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