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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:03:56 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        "Alan P. Laudicina" <alanp@boredom.org>
Cc:        Ty Purcell <purcell@crcom.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /dev/null
Message-ID:  <20011227210156.W21746-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011227203700.B3117@boredom.org>

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Alan P. Laudicina wrote to Ty Purcell:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:57:41PM -0600, Ty Purcell wrote:
> >
> > Somehow I have written over /dev/null...
> >
> > How can I restore it to how it was?
> >
> > On my other bsd box it has the permissions
> >
> > crw-rw-rw
>
> cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV null

There is no "null" case in FreeBSD's MAKEDEV. The above command won't
work.

./MAKEDEV std will remake null, mem, kmem, random, etc

Someone else pointed out the use of mknod, which is a good idea in
this case.

- Ryan

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