Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ukc!root44!mb From: mb@root44.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Non-empty /dev/null Message-ID: <3980@root44.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 06:15:13 EDT Article-I.D.: root44.3980 Posted: Wed Jun 22 06:15:13 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 10:47:29 EDT References: cca.4949 Lines: 15 I've seen the same problem on an ONYX that had not had the permissions on /dev set properly. Once your handy neighbourhood moron has typed 'rm /dev/null' and got away with it, you see all sorts of interesting stuff in response to 'cat /dev/null' until the next 'if grep xxx foo >/dev/null; then .....' clears it out again. Quit honestly, the state of access permissions on a lot of commercially available U*IX is a disaster. The ONYX is no worse than others. Perhaps somebody out there would like to write a shell script that gets things about right and then post it somewhere handy to save us all a lot of time? I don't suppose it will happen, but one can dream. Mike Banahan.