Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:3555 comp.sys.att:7295 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!network!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!zardoz!ccicpg!cci632!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsh!ho5cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: permissions on swap (UNIXPC) Message-ID: Date: 22 Jul 89 14:27:51 GMT References: <1989Jun14.042038.432@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <559@uncle.UUCP> Sender: bill@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Reply-To: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 13 In-reply-to: jbm@uncle.UUCP's message of 16 Jun 89 21:37:39 GMT In article <559@uncle.UUCP> jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes: > >brw-r--r-- 1 sys sys 0, 1 Jan 1 1970 /dev/swap > Yes, it is a hole, no it nee$ not be readable I'm sure what JBM meant was that it need not be world readable. Some folks reading this may not be aware that the "ps" command needs to read /dev/swap on many occasions and runs setGid "sys" on the UNIXpc. A perm of 640 would be okay, for example, but not 600. -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill