Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:14:59 -0400 From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /dev/null breakage in 2.2.7 Message-ID: <19980924151459.A14371@binary.net>
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in 2.2.7-S (shortly past 2.2.7-R), reading /dev/null begins producing the output of this cron job: */10 * * * * root /home/nathan/pop3ck mail xxxxxxxxxx@alphame.com 3 > /dev/null 2>&1 nathan@shell.fcc.net:~% cat /dev/null Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...connected. Read +OK. Writing nothing to /dev/null makes it work right again: shell# cat > /dev/null shell# cat /dev/null shell# Then, shell# echo foo > /dev/null shell# cat /dev/null foo shell# Is my bit bucket overflowing? :-P is this known/fixed in a newer -STABLE? -- ________________ ___________________________________________ / Nathan Dorfman \ / "`IE4 brings the web to UNIX'? *laughing* / nathan@rtfm.net \/ Isn't that similar to Ronald McDonald bringing / finger for PGP key \ religion to the pope?" -Jamie Bowden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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