On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, James J. Ramsey wrote:
--- Jyry Kuukkanen
wrote: When ever one logs in from console, ssh, anything, following gets printed after /etc/issue message:
bash: /dev/null: Is a directory bash: /dev/null: Is a directory bash: /dev/null: Is a directory
The same goes when any /etc/ini.d/xxx script file is executed.
Any pointers to sort out whats wrong?
What's the result of running the command "file /dev/null"?
Thanks for you quick reply - and a very good piece of advice :-) Here's grep of dirring dev: vdir /dev/|grep null lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 9 2001 X0R -> null drwxr-xr-x 7 560 users 888 Oct 8 13:38 null Ok. Is there any catches fixing the null device? I managed to delete the silly null directory, got rid of XOR link, but how to create node for null? Cheers, -- --Jyry :-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(