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'

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