Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:09:52 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Matthias_Gamsj=E4ger?=" <mgamsjager@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing /dev/null after few min Message-ID: <585602e10803201209x11baf803x7b7978a130073e55@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44zlstxsou.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <585602e10803191252s34b244b2lbea6345a52c06dbc@mail.gmail.com> <44zlstxsou.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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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" <mgamsjager@gmail.com> 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. >
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