kimcm@freja.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) (09/27/88)
Ahh one of the funny things that can happen when you accidentially lose your /dev/null, is that a lot of programs write a lot of garbage to /dev/null, and a lot of these programs are run with root priviledges (from cron) and therefore will generate (sooner or later) the plain file /dev/null. Now what is the dangerous thing about that you can always remove the file, and reinstall the null-driver, can't you? Well, depends on how fast you react -- If you're too slow the garbage from the file /dev/null has been copied to numerous other files, that were expected to be emptied...... Sincerely Kim Chr. Madsen