[GLLUG] Any ideas? (Fw: exim paniclog on ladon has non-zero size)

[Ed Thomson]

Forgot to cc the list initially.

Somehow, /dev/null got removed.  (And eventually, some process tried  
to stick some output there and created it as a regular file.)

You should be able to fix this by:

mknod /dev/null.tmp c 1 3
chmod 666 /dev/null.tmp
mv /dev/null.tmp /dev/null

(I suggesting doing the work on a tmp file and moving it over to  
avoid races -- if you deleted the current /dev/null and then mknod'ed  
a new one, something else might write to it in the meantime.)

-Ed

On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Benjamin Cathey wrote:

> ladon:~# ls -Flasd /dev /dev/null
> 28 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 28672 2007-06-12 12:20 /dev/
>  4 -rw-r--r--  1 root root    49 2007-06-13 11:03 /dev/null
> ladon:~#
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