From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jun 7 18:01:36 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09440D14D2C for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:01:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.home.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org", Issuer "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 888D37D079 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:01:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v57I1Xot001198 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:01:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Subject: [Fixed] Re: /dev/null behaving strangely From: Arthur Chance To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <2b711fe0-41f2-143e-be44-7eb0154bbf4c@qeng-ho.org> Message-ID: <5de474e9-6c18-7a73-43fc-d1eadcab7ca1@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:01:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2b711fe0-41f2-143e-be44-7eb0154bbf4c@qeng-ho.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:01:36 -0000 It's an ID10T problem (aka PEBKAC). I misread the mail headers - the problem was on this machine, not the file server. I must take time to read mail carefully, even when I'm under pressure to be somewhere else 10 minutes ago. -- An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).