Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:45:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emptying the "bit bucket" Message-ID: <199806222245.RAA00777@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: message from John on Mon, 22 Jun 1998 08:16:01 %2B0100 References:
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>> What exactly does "emptying the bit bucket" entail? I received a >> message on start-up asking me to do this. > Bizarre. Can you post the error message? The 'bit bucket' as it is > sometimes called, is /dev/null. It always returns 0 to a write. > Consequently, it is always 'empty'. He saw a fortune reading, Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. See the entry for "Bit Bucket" in the Jargon File for history on the idea of emptying it. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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