eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) (11/22/90)
A silly thing happened today. Something nuked my /dev/null device. I know
how to use mknod all right, but I cannot seem to find the spec for /dev/null
anywhere in the conf files. I'm using AT&T System V Release 3.2.
Anybody out there know a clever way or ways to mine it out of the kernel or
conf files?
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Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/26/90)
First off, if you want help, don't include the following line: > Followup-To: poster It confuses some admittedly broken news reading software and may make someone decide that they don't want to go throught the trouble to help you. In article <1YX6d1#4Tp8f44pkCfd9Ls4PT1wjkW3=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >A silly thing happened today. Something nuked my /dev/null device. I know >how to use mknod all right, but I cannot seem to find the spec for /dev/null >anywhere in the conf files. I'm using AT&T System V Release 3.2. For system V, the norm is that /dev/null has the same major device number as /dev/mem and /dev/kmem but has the minor device number of 2. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170