Re: Bash,/dev/null and errors
Dear Andrea
>bash: /dev/null : permission denied
something similar happened to me some time ago.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-italian/2004/04/msg00308.html
/dev/null is a special file : ls -l /dev/null returns:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-02-13 09:29 /dev/null
>even chmodding 777 (as root) /dev/null did not solve the problem.
In my case /dev/null had become (nobody knows how) a standard file, so
many programs couldn't write on it and the just stopped.
Check your permissions, and in case restore /dev/null as should.
Hope that helps
Edo
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