On 15-Feb-98 Bodo Bauer wrote:

Hi,

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...

Hi Bodo et al, With respect (and I mean it -- S.u.S.E. is a very nice distribution) I think it makes just as much sense to write to /dev/zero as to /dev/null. The differences is in reading. If setting idiosyncratic permissions is likely to cause several programs to misbehave, then please leave them as 666! Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 16-Feb-98 Time: 00:04:29 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e