On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:07:54 -0400 brian wrote: > > It means some script somewhere did an rm -f on /dev/null > > then later some other script redirected output to /dev/null > > thus creating it as a regular file. > > > It looks more like a typo, as another poster said (one L). Could be, but I had /dev/null deleted on a machine once and the ensuing fun was really spectacular :-). Doing "whatever > /dev/null" wasn't too bad, but when someone said "whatever < /dev/null" amazingly random things could happen. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
