SUMMARY: /dev/zero

From: John Marsh (john@rod.mitre.org)
Date: Mon Sep 28 1992 - 14:06:04 CDT


> We made the mistake of installing rsend on a couple suns. The
> suns are now refusing to log in any users other than root.
>
> We are getting the error message:
>
> crt0: /dev/zero not found.
>
> The device exists and has correct permissions/ownership.
>
> HELP - WE WANT OUR INFINITE SUPPLY OF NOTHING BACK...

The software changed the permissions on /dev to 666.

Changed them back to

drwxr-sr-x 2 bin staff 9728 Sep 23 09:34 dev

and voila, NOTHING IS BACK.

John Marsh
jmarsh@mitre.org

Thanks to:

 mp@allegra.att.com
 cross@eng.umd.edu
 phs1dm@ph.surrey.ac.uk
 kuhn@math.harvard.edu
 trinkle@cs.purdue.edu
 mdl@cypress.com
 densond@hydro.cor2.epa.gov
 behrens@eliot.imes.uni-hannover.de



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