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Re: Cookies location > /dev/null...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Reed)
Fri Nov 13 10:51:00 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:53:44 -0500
From: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
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(message from Zoki on Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:51:51 +0100 (CET))
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> I had to create an account at YAHOO mail - jeeez what an abusers - and
> accept cookies of all sorts. Then I figured out - as I remember somebody
> talk about it - to make a link to /dev/null. It looked simple...and I
> should've been warned. The only cookie thing I could find was in
> $HOME/.netscap/cookies (is that it?) so I did a "ln -si
> $HOME/.netscape/cookie /dev/null. I was asked if I want to replace
> /dev/null and I hit "Enter" faster than my brain could say "whoaaa!". This
> operation hasn't really given me the expected efect but a feeling I fu***d
> something up. Obviously /dev/null doesn't work anymore, and to make the
> horror complete, I can't even find it anymore. It's not in /dev anymore.
>
> QUESTION: Weeeell...eer...How do I recreate /dev/null without having to do
> an upgrade install and how do I make the dam* link properly?
You did it backwards:
It should be (from the .netscape directory)
ln -s /dev/null .cookies
Were you root when you executed your command?
I'm at work so I don't have Linux in front of me, but I believe there
is a program called MAKEDEV in the /dev directory - take a look at it.
Dave
dreed@capital.edu
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