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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Space Between on May 03, 2003, 10:20:26 AM

Title: oops.. /dev/null overwrote
Post by: Space Between on May 03, 2003, 10:20:26 AM

ok i overwrote the /dev/null file
it was listed as a character file or device file before???not sure but assuming that.

now if i do something like bash myscrtip > /dev/null
it actually outputs the contents to the /dev/null file
instead of nulling it

any clue on how i could recreate that \"special\" file /dev/null

????

Title: oops.. /dev/null overwrote
Post by: Josetann on May 03, 2003, 12:25:23 PM

Try \"mknod /dev/null c 1 3\"

Then do a \"chmod 777 /dev/null\" so anyone can write to it.