On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts > > > deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could > > > help-me? > > How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration?
Some old version of LyX indeed had this problem which went unnoticed for a while as people usually configure & make as ordinary user and only 'make install' as root. In any case, 'mknod' can be used to re-create /dev/null. The correct parameters depend on your system. On Linux it's usually major 1 and minor 3. Andre'
