From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 19:09:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B901065683 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:09:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mgamsjager@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5F48FC26 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:09:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mgamsjager@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so1110774wfa.7 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:09:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=+AVqkV+XyRE2j43Ft5eWEPkRFZDOVqpGvtFfZzfHnkc=; b=i3bvpPqgTxasVHCOn7HcjbCeLFD8tIvC5BAGlO4L0CpJcux7DfJ6yYLAKd5FJHbEf2CAzY4bTbJG4GJWSna3loNr78GwwYsQUMwC6ewWULWCrGSMP8IE669fgthGkKhfcWO8yzhj5cheyuP23TSSrheoIwC8DJJyygMqVgjwcjg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=qMZZgjiLsf9fetfrDOCZEGyh1jtp0uzPmwu3Ew0uVig3aqiTOMOn+ZLguNbpX9Ut+KjBgxd41Kk43UtXZmtMRVRzGD31Xhu7oyEjmvSPci85E4/VlmEVX/MCAiRZsWzlCyT/v/GAgENUkLfjye9ZaiMwu6YOFAFZC9aMto5huKg= Received: by 10.142.89.9 with SMTP id m9mr1695499wfb.35.1206040192349; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:09:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.135.18 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:09:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <585602e10803201209x11baf803x7b7978a130073e55@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:09:52 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Matthias_Gamsj=E4ger?=" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44zlstxsou.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <585602e10803191252s34b244b2lbea6345a52c06dbc@mail.gmail.com> <44zlstxsou.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Missing /dev/null after few min X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:09:53 -0000 The guilty package seems the be gnash. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > "Matthias Gamsj=E4ger" writes: > > > I'm running freebsd for couple of years now and never had really big > > problems but this one I can't solve on my own. Running releng 7 for 6 > months > > now but recently after running X for like 10min the systems is missing > > /dev/null. So you can imaging that most programs start complaining abou= t > it. > > Right now I recreate it with mknod /dev/null c 1 3 but that's not a rea= l > > solution because it starts to disappear again after few minutes. > > I'm for 99% sure it's not freebsd problem but more a application proble= m > but > > I wonder if anyone ran into the same trouble after upgrading xyz port? > Or > > even better has a solution for it? > > Yep, something is deleting it. > Something with permissions to delete it, which shouldn't be many > things. First make sure that it has the correct permissions, then > check what's running as root. > > You might be able to find a process that has a file handle open on > /dev/null or even on /dev itself, but I'd consider that a long shot. >