Are you positive the directory has 777 permissions?
Thomas Hood may have found your problem:
> Some devfs permission problems may have arisen because of the
> fact that devfs now notifies devfsd of the creation of
> directories. Many people have devfsd configured to set
> permissions to all devices matching a certain regular
> expression --- e.g., all devices with "sound" in their
> pathname. The problem is that the "sound" directory itself
> matches this regular expression, and so will have its perm
> bits set exactly like the device files' perm bits---e.g.,
> with the eXamine bit cleared. The solution is to edit the
> devfsd config so that it excludes the directory. E.g.,
> instead of:
> REGISTER sound PERMISSIONS root.audio 0664
> (which worked before but won't any more) do:
> REGISTER ^sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0664
> or something similar.
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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