On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, James J. Ramsey wrote:

--- Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:

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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:-(

* Dave Smith (Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:36:07PM +0100)

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:32:16PM +0300, jyry@neutech.fi wrote:

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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?

Doh!

mknod will create the node. See my other post for major and minor numbers. Check the manpage (or mknod --help) for syntax; it's pretty easy. Come back if you have further problems.

You might still need 'XOR' for something - it's been there for a while, so I see no reason to delete it.

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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Dave Smith wrote:

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:25:36AM -0400, kschneider@rtsx.com wrote:

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which is a character device. If not you will need to recreate it as one. info mknod might help. You will need the major,minor numbers to create it. I do not know the numbers, perhaps someone else on the list can help there.

AIUI...

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crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2003-03-14 08:07 /dev/null ^ ^ | | major-+ +-minor

Magic! All sorted. Honky dory! Thank you all who showed the way :-) -- --Jyry :-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(

Now, repeat after me:

"I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'"...

"I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" :-))) -- --Jyry :-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(

--- BandiPat wrote:

How about this instead?

#include int main(void) { int count;

for(count=1;count<=500;count++) printf("I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as root.") return 0; }

Hmm, that looks familiar: http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2003/10/03/ BTW, shouldn't there be a "\n" in that printf argument? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, BandiPat wrote:

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:49 am, Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:

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Now, repeat after me:

"I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'"...

"I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'" "I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as 'root'"

:-)))

-- --Jyry

:-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-( ===========================

How about this instead?

#include int main(void) { int count;

for(count=1;count<=500;count++) printf("I will not do stupid things whilst logged on as root.") return 0; }

------------- Lee :o)

I believe five times repeating that does the trick for me. Not that thick. I hope. :-)))))))))) -- --Jyry :-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(