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From: ssi@usfvax2.EDU (Ssi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/console
Summary: one day i did an rm /dev/console
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Date: 24 Sep 88 23:39:38 GMT
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My system manual has a shell script example to delete stray files in
the /dev directory. It does a find of all files in /dev not owned by root
then it deletes them. What they failed to mention is that if you are not logged
in as root, root no longer owns /dev/console. When I rebooted the following day,it didn't!!!