/dev/null & zero inside chroot for make release

Tjado Mäcke tjado.ml.freebsd-hackers at maecke.net
Sat May 15 15:32:47 UTC 2010


> Thanks for trying to help :-)  But this is in Wrong.
> Line 4 on that page:
> 	Last updated: 2005-08-11
> 5 years later, FreeBSD-8.0 has via ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  31 May 15 14:17 /dev/null
> so both major & minor numbers have changed, command now would be
> 	mknod dev/null c 0 31
> which I already posted in my original Thu, 13 May 2010 19:44:58 +0200
> as having tried, but not good enough.
>
> As I posted Fri, 14 May 2010 21:59:23 +0200 (but you may not have
> seen when you posted)
>
>   

Hm... i did this on 7.2 because chrooted scponly shell with WinSCP
support needs it. In this case it works...
But I'm wrong because the dev/null with my nod numbers doesn't work
correctly and WinSCP looks only if this file is there :D


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