From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 21:22:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858DE37B419 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JpTd-00058w-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:22:41 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 832CA116E; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 06:22:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 06:22:39 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/null Message-ID: <20011228052239.GA12190@raggedclown.net> References: <3C2BD195.8090200@crcom.net> <20011227181704.C479-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011227181704.C479-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:19:19PM -0800, Thomas Cannon wrote: > > You can use /dev/MAKEDEV (As was already posted), or just do it by hand > with: > > cd /dev ; mknod dev c 2 2 root:wheel ; chmod 666 dev > > MAKEDEV is easier, but knowing how to do it manually might not be bad to > know. > > -tcannon > > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Ty Purcell wrote: > > > > > Somehow I have written over /dev/null... > > The above is the right way to do it IMHO, remaking all the devices just because one has gone AWOL sounds like a Redmond solution to me :) I am marginally curious how on earth you overwrote /dev/null, I mean you cannot "ovewrite" it, something must have deleted it first. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message