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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Something is eating /dev/null

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:53:51AM -0500, Charles MacDonald wrote:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1627 2005-03-23 08:47 /dev/null.2005-03-23.0
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   17 2005-03-23 08:47 /dev/null.current -> 
> null.2005-03-23.0
> 
> Anyone have any idea of what is going on, or what I should do about it?

Those /dev/null.* files look like they've got something in them. Cat
one of them and see what they say. That'd be a start.

My money is on some rogue script with a typo in it.


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