[10854] in Athena Bugs
Re: /dev/null error: False Alarm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Evans)
Mon Aug 30 13:49:48 1993
To: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, testers@Athena.MIT.EDU, sparc@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 30 Aug 93 13:30:51 -0400.
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 13:49:30 EDT
From: John D. Evans <jdevans@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Hi,
Somehow the /dev/null file had been changed to a
regular file (of 0 bytes, owned by myself).
I simply deleted and re-created it (using "mknod
/dev/null c 3 2"), and everything's now back to
normal. I still don't know how the file got
changed, but I guess I was a little jumpy sending
this to bugs etc. so quickly. Sorry.
Unless the problem recurs, I'll assume I caused
it myself somehow last week. False alarm.
Cheers, "Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna
John E. make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!"
-- lennox@shire.hw.stratus.com
