On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:08 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > 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. > > Even funnier stuff happened to me, with a broken installer of a BIG > commercial app. > It removed /dev/null (yes, let's remove the file in which we logged, > which was called... /dev/null), then did a "something >/dev/null" > and created a file owned by a specific user. :-) > That is not how you create /dev/null. You use the MAKEDEV script to create it. What you did will just create a file with that name. /dev/null is a special file that can not be created that way. > So, > > echo "a" >/dev/null > Permission denied. > > Almost everything on the system appeared to be broken. > > :-) > > -- > Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it > -- ======================================================================= Obviously the only rational solution to your problem is suicide. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
