[ILUG] /dev/tty

[Waider]

According to cnb at eircom.net:
> When looking for dodgy directories I came across this:
> crw-rw----    1 root     disk      12,   5 Mar 24  2001 tpqic24
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       5,   0 Mar 24  2001 tty
> -rw-------    1 root     root     146882020 Jan 31 20:43 tty*
> crw--w----    1 root     root       4,   0 Mar 24  2001 tty0
> crw-------    1 root     root       4,   1 Jan 30 20:59 tty1
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,  10 Mar 24  2001 tty10
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,  11 Mar 24  2001 tty11
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,  12 Mar 24  2001 tty12
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,  13 Mar 24  2001 tty13
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,  14 Mar 24  2001 tty14
> crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,  15 Mar 24  2001 tty15
> Just in case it is normal what looked odd to me was the 3rd line:
> -rw-------    1 root     root     146882020 Jan 31 20:43 tty*

As detailed elsewhere, looks like someone did cat > /dev/tty* in some
sort of context where the glob didn't expand. Might be worth investigating
what's in the file.

Waider.
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