On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:42:07AM -0500, C.T. Paterson wrote: > --- 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)". which is meaningless. Only /dev/null was actually a character device file. All the rest were just regular files. You're certainly doing something very strange... mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE