--- Charles MacDonald <cmacd [ at ] telecomottawa [ dot ] net>
wrote:
>
> Somehow my dev null device keep turning into a
> regular file..
It looks suspisciously like you've got a cron job or
something that is (a) regularly trying to write to
"/dev/null.$(date)", or (b) 'backing up' /dev/null to
"/dev/null.$(date)".
I think your job is substituting the date into the
target filename, so the system will treat it as a
regular file. Take a look at the crontab files for
your users and root and see if there's anything there
or in the invoked scripts that targets /dev/null. An
examination of the file's contents may also yield some
clues.
Cheers.
"The average person's grasp of risk factors is so poor, that it's commonplace to meet cigarette smokers who worry about terrorism."
-- Gwynne Dyer
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