dann@wxlvax.UUCP (Dan Neiman) (03/19/84)
Some time ago I posted an article describing a problem I was having with the CPS (create process server) command. The problem was that I could invoke a server on some nodes but not on other, apparently identical, nodes. The processes would work correctly in a window, but not in background. The problem was that /dev/null had been corrupted on some nodes. The server could not redirect its output to /dev/null and crashed. The solution is to copy /dev/null (really, it's `node_data/dev/null) from another node. I don't know what happenened to /dev/null but a couple of our nodes had this problem. You can test for it by trying to redirect the output of a shell command to /dev/null. dann