Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 12:00:41 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: "bad namelist": no /dev/null? Message-ID: <200001021700.MAA12865@hda.hda.com>
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A missing /dev/null will give a mysterious "bad namelist" error. I've seen a few questions about this but no answers. I managed to screw myself up today by wiping out /dev/null (trying to build "ps.exe" for win32 and run it under wine, stupidly as root). It took me a while to figure out what had happened. The rc script dumps stuff into /dev/null and also copies /dev/null to initialize things - the result is pretty weird. Those of you who were doing "who" and seeing the output of "umount" now know what happened - umount onto dev null was then being copied to initialize utmp. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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