[techtalk] /dev/null settings

[Julie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net>
To: Linux Ladies <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 04:34
Subject: [techtalk] /dev/null settings


> 
> Some of my cron jobs are writing their error messages to /dev/null.
> It was working fine until yesterday, when I choose to link the netscape
> "cookies" file to /dev/null. After that the cron job send me email with
> the following message.
> 
> /bin/sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
> 
> The current permission on /dev/null are as follows,
> 
> crw-------   1 root     sys        1,   3 Jul 17  1994 null

No.  /dev/null must be read-write for everyone.

-- Julie.