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ls -l /dev/null on a working linux box I'm not the kind of guy who just sreams RTFM all the time so here's the long(er) version... [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 May 11 21:08 /dev/null ^ ^ ^ this means /dev/null is a character special device (the leading 'c') with major mode 1 and minor mode 3, what *that* means is really rather beyond me, except that it reads/writes 1 character at a time not blocks of data like diskdrives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls -l /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Mar 3 1999 /dev/sda ^ Anyway what you want to do (after reading the man page) is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mknod /dev/null c 1 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] chmod 666 /dev/null That last command isn't a joke, that's really the permissions you want, read and write for everybody (ain't that the devil). If you're feelling waggish you could name it /dev/bottomless-pit-o-bits if you want, or keek it in your home directory :) HTH, -Jon