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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Has anyone seen this issue with the /dev/null? Post 28433 by Perderabo on Wednesday 18th of September 2002 12:58:00 PM
Old 09-18-2002
On my HP-UX systems, I see that /dev/null is owned by bin. This means that either bin or root could change the mode. I would chown /dev/null to root and let it change modes again. If it does, you know the process was a root process.

Make sure that no one is signed on as root or su'ed to root. If it changes, either a running process or a cronjob did it.

"ls -lc /dev/root" will get the exact time of change. Check every cron job that was running during the change. The periodic nature of the problem also is pointing to a bad cron job.
 

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SET_NET_DEFAULT(8)					      System Manager's Manual						SET_NET_DEFAULT(8)

NAME
s_n_d, set_net_default - select the default TCP/IP network SYNOPSIS
set_net_default: not found DESCRIPTION
This manual page is here because so many others refer to it. The set_net_default command does not exist under standard Minix, because the TCP/IP server only supports one network. The server under Minix-vmd supports four different networks, that can each be chosen as the default network. The TCP/IP library and commands do have a notion about a "default network" however, because the code is shared between the Minix versions. So if you want to venture into network programming then you should know about the devices and environment variables mentioned below to make your program compatible. (Especially since there is a plan to upgrade the TCP/IP server for standard Minix.) Options and environment to change the default Many TCP/IP programs implement the following options and environment variables to change the default devices set by set_net_default. The options are only implemented for low level programs where it makes sense to name a network device. The environment variables are used in all code. You can run a process and all its children connected to a different network by setting four environment variables. ETH_DEVICE=device -E device Device to use as raw ethernet device instead of the default /dev/eth. PSIP_DEVICE=device -P device Pseudo IP device to use instead of /dev/psip. IP_DEVICE=device -I device IP device to use instead of /dev/ip. TCP_DEVICE=device -T device TCP device to use. UDP_DEVICE=device -U device UDP device to use. FILES
/dev/eth[01] First and second raw ethernet. /dev/psip[01] First and second Pseudo IP network. /dev/ip[0123] IP devices for two ethernets and two Pseudo IP networks. /dev/tcp[0123] TCP devices for same four networks. /dev/udp[0123] UDP devices. /dev/eth, /dev/psip, /dev/ip, /dev/tcp, /dev/udp Devices for the default network, links to the devices above. Eth is only present if ethernet is the default, psip only for pseudo IP. SEE ALSO
ip(4), boot(8). AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) SET_NET_DEFAULT(8)
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