Andreas Pflug wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I am more than somewhat perplexed as to why the NUL device should be a > >> security risk ... what are they thinking?? > >> > > > > Frankly, I don't believe it; even Microsoft can't be that stupid. > > And I can't find any suggestion that they've done this in a google > > search. I think the OP is misdiagnosing his problem. > > > An older message suggests that a service pack induced this problem, per > MS. I just tried it as non-admin on a W2K3 machine with recent hotfixes, > and the command "dir >nul" _did_ work for me. > Though neglected, it still sounds like a virus scanner issue to me.
Yes, it seems we will need more information on this. We need someone at a win32 command prompt to show us a "> nul" failure. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
