On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When one of my users try to:
>
> any_command | /dev/nul
>
> the response is either that the file /dev/nul doesn't exist or that he
> doesn't have permissions to do that.
>
> If the same user tries to:
>
> any_command | /dev/null
> ^^^^
>
> it works fine.
>
> I'm surpriced. Why is /dev/nul reserved for root? What could a user harm
> by sending stuff to /dev/nul ? And what's the difference between
> /dev/nul and /dev/null ?
Last time I checked there is no /dev/nul only dev/null and dev/zero as
far as devices go.
that is probably why you get that error that says the device doesn't
exist.
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