[10853] in Athena Bugs
Re: "/dev/null: File exists" error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Mon Aug 30 13:31:05 1993
To: jdevans@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, sparc@Athena.MIT.EDU, testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 30 Aug 93 11:53:55 -0400.
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 13:30:51 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Do you have the variable noclobber set?
Type 'set' for a list of variables.....
It might be a bug with the shell you are using with devices... Also
check to make sure /dev/null is really a device and not a file...
Ezra
