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Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?



> This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending
> things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try:
> 
> mv file /dev/null

mknod /dev/null c 1 3

It will create character ('c') device file /dev/null with major number 1 and
minor number 3. Exactly what you need.

Do not forget to allow everyone to write into /dev/null:
chmod a+w /dev/null
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