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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:56:29 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/null breakage in 2.2.7 
Message-ID:  <98Sep24.145639pdt.177534@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 98 12:14:59 PDT." <19980924151459.A14371@binary.net> 

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Someone removed your /dev/null; then it became a regular file the next
time root wrote to it.  I had this happen when I did a "fetch -o /dev/null"
as root and interrupted it in the middle; fetch removed /dev/null since
it was only a partially transferred file =)

  Bill

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