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

[Benjamin Cathey]

>->> 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

You know, I read somewhere in a linux magazine a year or so ago about this happening to someone.  Seems to have changed the file.  Wonder how it got removed initially?

Anyway,

Here is the output now:

ladon:~# ls -Flasd /dev /dev/null
28 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 28672 2007-06-13 11:38 /dev/
 0 crw-rw-rw-  1 root root  1, 3 2007-06-13 11:38 /dev/null
ladon:~#

Thanks again,

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