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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:10:33PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Ralf S. Engelschall, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> | $ echo foo >/dev/null
> | bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> | $
> 
> Has anybody an idea where to search? There were no changes to devfs
> recently and the recent changes to the Linuxulator seemed harmless to me
> at the first glance...

Try it with the double '>>'.  It may be trying to truncate or remove
it because of the '>' and getting the "Permission denied" from THAT
part of the process.  Of course, I can't explain why it would start
out of the blue...   bash upgrade?


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