Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!dann From: dann@wxlvax.UUCP (Dan Neiman) Newsgroups: net.works.apollo Subject: CPS Problem -- Followup Message-ID: <255@wxlvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 10:42:22 EST Article-I.D.: wxlvax.255 Posted: Mon Mar 19 10:42:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 02:03:19 EST Lines: 18 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