From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 23:39:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04455 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.wr.com.au (wr.com.au [203.12.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04442 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:08:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gharris@mail.wr.com.au) Received: from aplyozsq (dialup98.wr.com.au [203.27.69.98]) by mail.wr.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA14452; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:06:53 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199806230606.QAA14452@mail.wr.com.au> From: "Gary Harris" To: John , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:03:00 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Emptying the "bit bucket" In-reply-to: References: <199806220459.OAA17010@mail.wr.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Bizarre. Can you post the error message? The 'bit bucket' as it is > sometimes called, is /dev/null. It always returns 0 to a write. > Consequently, it is always 'empty'. No, it only happened the once. Cheers, Gary. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gary Harris PowWow: gharris@wr.com.au ICQ Pager: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/827286 EMail: gharris@wr.com.au EMail: gharri01@postoffice.csu.edu.au WWW: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1473/ PGP Public Key available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message