Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote:
> > Okay,
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Yes I was root.
> > So how do I recreate /dev/null?
>
> hmm. i'm a second-iteration newbie, so i may be off base.
> i'll give it a try, anyhow.
>
> are you saying you DO NOT ALREADY have a 'null' entry under
> the '/dev' directory? it's hard for me to believe. if you
> truly don't have any such item, i'm not sure how to create
> it; but it shoula been created when you formatted your
> linux/unix system...
[very big albeit interesting snip]
No he's saying he replaced his /dev/null with that file!
The original post made me laugh, no comments on this one ;-)
Greetz,
Dan
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