not sure hit helps but the only thing I remember setting up for them is =
during the chroot process for bind.  I entered these commands.

create the devices, but confirm the major/minor device
numbers with =A0 "ls -lL /dev/zero /dev/null /dev/random"=20

# mknod dev/null c 1 3
# mknod dev/zero c 1 5
# mknod dev/random c 1 8



On Friday, February 28, 2003 12:55 PM, Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
wrote:
>
>in Linux, how to you make /dev/null and /dev/zero writable:
>
>imgate:/usr/local/bin# ll /dev/z*
>crwxrwxrwx    1 root     root       1,   5 Aug 30  2001
>/dev/zero
>
>imgate:/usr/local/bin# ll /dev/nul*
>crwxrwxrwx    1 root     root       1,   3 Aug 30  2001
>/dev/null
>
>but:
>
>Feb 28 15:50:41 imgate postfix/local[11348]: 6236E6C750:=20
>to=3D<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=3D<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,=20
>relay=3Dlocal, delay=3D-1085, status=3Dbounced (Command died with status =
1:=20
>"/dev/zero")
>
>hey, isn't great that FreeBSD =3D=3D Linux =3D=3D *nix ?  :))
>
>(would be even greater if I knew WTF I were doing)
>
>Len=20
>
>
>


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