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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
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    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