On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jost Schaper wrote:
era eriksson wrote:
:0
* some expression which uniquely identifies mail from the list
/dev/null
Era,
sorry, you may laugh.
I have a directory /dev/nul, owned by root.root drwxr-xr-r
and a file /dev/null owned by root.root crwxr-xr-x
Procmail gives me the error: Error while writing to "dev/null"
That is _kinda_ funny, from over here :)
Quoting a manpage, though:
"
Data written on a null or zero special file is discarded.
Reads from the null special file always return end of
file, whereas reads from zero always return \0 characters.
null and zero are typically created by:
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5
chown root.mem /dev/null /dev/zero
NOTES
If these devices are not writable and readable for all
users, many programs will act strange.
"
I would say:
a) bug your sysadmin to fix /dev/null's permissions
b) try writing to /dev/zero for now
-jeff
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