On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jiju Thomas Mathew wrote:
> currently I have no option to see the long listing of /dev/null in
don't understand. why doesn't ls -l /dev/null work? if your devnull
was destroyed, use MAKEDEV to recreate it.
> this is for RH 7.1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Mar 24 2001 /dev/null
ya, this is correct.
> DESCRIPTION
> Data written on a null or zero special file is discarded.
>
> so wvdialconf /dev/null should not overwrite /dev/null with a config
right if data is just written to /dev/null. not if /dev/null is first
deleted and then data written to it.
Philip
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