Re: LYNX-DEV Alleged Lynx security emergency

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Jonathan Sergent wrote:
> Fote wrote:
>  ]    No.  The vanilla code assumes that the value of File= will
> ... 
> As far as /dev/null disappearing, sol seems to be the
> only machine on which people say this happens.  I've tried it on 
> ... 
> I suggest you check the permissions of the /dev directory itself 
> on sol, they should be 0755 obviously.

I've sent email to Scott about this; "sol" is/was misconfigured.

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