Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:32:53 -0400 From: Jooka Hyno <bl29x5@earthlink.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: bad namelist Message-ID: <00071700380700.01168@localhost>
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After searching for the solution to this problem, I came upon a post which reminded me that I had used /dev/null earlier as part of a redirection of output. In January Peter Dufault talked about /dev/null being the possible cause of a bad namelist error for various programs (ps, w, umount, et al). This does indeed seem to be the problem. I attempted to fix it by issuing the following commands as super-user: cd /dev cp null null.old mknod null c 2 2 chmod 666 null w (to test it out) It solved the problem. If something like this has been posted already, I apologize, and only wish I had seen it in the mailing list search before attempting to mess with devices myself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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