Thanks Wit, I'll certainly remember this in the future.

On 3/19/07, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sizo nsibande wrote:
> > Could you please elaborate on how I am supposed to fix the /dev/null
> > issue if that is the problem because at first there was no /dev/null
> > at all and I created it my self using "touch" and when I run the
> > command that John suggested "test -c /dev/null && echo Ok" nothing
> > happens at all.<snip>
>
> I'm glad you got by your problem. FYI, your "touch" of /dev/null can not
> work. /dev/null is a "character special file". "Touch" makes regular files.
>
>     $ ls -l /dev/null
>     crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Mar 19 17:48 /dev/null
>
> If you ls after a "touch", you'll see the difference.
>
> HTH
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