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From: "Alan P. Laudicina" <alanp@boredom.org>
To: Ty Purcell <purcell@crcom.net>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null
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In-Reply-To: <3C2BD195.8090200@crcom.net>; from purcell@crcom.net on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:57:41PM -0600
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:57:41PM -0600, Ty Purcell wrote:
> 
> Somehow I have written over /dev/null...
> 
> How can I restore it to how it was?
> 
> On my other bsd box it has the permissions
> 
> crw-rw-rw

cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV null

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