Re: [opensuse] Re: Update of aaa_base removes permissions to /dev/null

On Monday 09 March 2009 13:45:19 Carlos E. R. wrote:
There is nothing that can be done to /dev/null to avoid it being
changed?

Not by root.

Well, actually, I suppose it could be possible to hack the kernel or
file system to reject such as change, but I don't think you really
want that.
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