sorry, I found what the /dev/null culprit was :-(

Ooohh, I'm sooo stupid.....

"Someone" linked .mc/history against /dev/null
because he didn't want 
a history....
(much in the style of linking .bash_history -> /dev/null
... )

Now what happens? Ofcourse, chmod .mc/history....  ->
chmod the file 
/dev/null to 0600 :-(

"Bug" solved: It's a feature. So sorry. :-(

Yours
Alex

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