sh in linux_base cannot write to /dev/null

Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen at math.missouri.edu
Mon Dec 20 13:03:26 PST 2004


Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> There is nothing there.  Presumably some kind of makedev instruction 
> would fix it, but I don't know what that instruction would be.
> 
> (With linux_base-8 there isn't even a /compat/linux/dev - was this a 
> deliberate change?)
> 

I noticed that /compat/linux/dev wasn't in pkg-plist for linux_base. 
Presumably it was left over from some earlier installation.  A rmdir 
/compat/linux/dev completely fixed the problem.

Thanks, Stephen


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