Waaah! My bit bucket is missing...

[Conor P. Cahill]

First off, if you want help, don't include the following line:

> Followup-To: poster

It confuses some admittedly broken news reading software and may make
someone decide that they don't want to go throught the trouble to help you.

In article <1YX6d1#4Tp8f44pkCfd9Ls4PT1wjkW3=eric at snark.thyrsus.com> eric at snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>A silly thing happened today. Something nuked my /dev/null device. I know
>how to use mknod all right, but I cannot seem to find the spec for /dev/null
>anywhere in the conf files. I'm using AT&T System V Release 3.2.

For system V, the norm is that /dev/null has the same major device
number as /dev/mem and /dev/kmem but has the minor device number of 2.


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