[lug] /dev/null settings

[D. Stimits]

Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Are these the default settings for /dev/null?
> 
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chmod go+rw /dev/null should fix it.