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From: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Bad file descriptor?
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> > Below is what I started getting in the system security messages. 
> > Could anyone tell me what this means? If I do a ls in /dev I don't see ch0
> > but if I do a ls -l, I get the same thing /dev/ch0: Bad file descriptor
> > 
> > checking setuid files and devices:
> > find: /dev/ch0: Bad file descriptor
> 
> Your /dev/ch0 file is corrupted.  If you don't use the SCSI tape changer,
> you can simply remove the file.  If you do, then remove /dev/ch0 then run
> `/dev/MAKEDEV ch0'.

If I try to remove it I get the same thing:
/dev/ch0: Bad file descriptor 

John